One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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"Dress, or Who Makes the Fashions" in The Atlantic Monthly (1864).Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The value of my cry great will be its advantage to degrees.
The chief of men, shield of warriors.
The extensive booty of the ashen shaft is my fair Awen.
A shield before a prince, bright his smile,
Heroic, aspiring, the most heroic is UrienTaliesin
To embrace the fullness of possible experience without fear strikes me as heroic, impossibly heroic.
Martin Firrell
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
Thomas Carlyle
Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman — a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed.
Kenneth Boulding
From what I know about alcoholism, I'd say there's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave -- nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.
Warren Zevon
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