| "The most heroic word in all languages is revolution." »Eugene Debs |
| "Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." »Walt Whitman |
| "Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept" »Robert Browning |
| "Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." »Don Marquis |
| "I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'" »Maya Angelou |
| "People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all." »Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort |
| "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed." »Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute." »John Dryden |
| "That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect." »La Bruyere |
| "We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith." »Real Live Preacher |
| "As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives." »Albert Einstein |
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