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Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.
(Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet, Jesuit priest. sermon, Nov. 23, 1879. Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins, ed. W.H. Gardner (1953).)
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I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.
(Spike Milligan (b. 1918), British comedian, humorous writer. Puckoon, ch. 2 (1963).)
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Representative Men, "Uses of Great Men," (1850).)
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The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.
(Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914), U.S. historian. The Image, ch. 2, Atheneum (1961).)
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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Character," Essays, Second Series (1844).)
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Carlyle, to adopt his own classification, is himself the hero as literary man.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Thomas Carlyle and His Works" (1847), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 340, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Walking" (1862), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 224, Houghton Mifflin (1906).
This observation ends a long meditation on the Rhine versus the Mississippi, as they symbolize, respectively, the chivalric age of mediaeval Europe and the heroic age of modern, democratic America.)
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One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero.
(Beilby Porteus (1731-1808), British clergyman, writer. Death.
The remark was revived in Charlie Chaplin's 1947 film Monsieur Verdoux.)
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The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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you in San Quentin,
who wrote, "Being German my hero is Hitler,"
instead of "Sincerely yours," at the end of long,
neat-scripted letters demolishing
the pre-Raphaelites:
(Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students (l. 9-13). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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