The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
Jacques Maritain
Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.
Daniel Boone
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
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