| Author |
Quotes |
| Charles Churchill | He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know. |
| Charles Kingsley | Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand. |
| Homer | Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | Rarely do they appear great before their valets. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | To a valet no man is a hero. |
| Joseph Hopkinson | Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. |
| Lucien Boyer | Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron; 'Tis heroes of the Yser, 'Tis sweethearts of glory, 'Tis lads who are unafraid! Ferryman ho! |
| Mme A M Bigot de Cornuel | No man is a hero to his valet. |
| Mme A M Bigot de Cornuel | Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. |
| Mrs Felicia D Hemans | The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. . . . . The flames roll'd on-he would not go Without his Father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. |
| Philip James Bailey | The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. |
| Philip James Bailey | As the master so the valet. |
| Richard Hansard | It hath been an antient custom among them that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe. |
| Thomas Carlyle | Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. |
| Washington Irving | The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-trust is the essence of heroism. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats, Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. |
| Thomas Carlyle | If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero? |
| Thomas Carlyle | Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind. |
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