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Letter "H" » Heroism
«If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.»
«In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.»
«Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-»
Author: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
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About:
Heroism
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Keywords:
accounted,
cheerfully,
dangers,
denials,
heroism,
human soul,
humble,
latent,
mutilation,
mutilations,
privation,
privations,
renounced,
renounces,
renouncing,
sicknesses,
sufferings,
the self,
The Sickness,
toils,
undertaken,
veterans
«Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion»
«Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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About:
Heroism
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Keywords:
brilliant,
Calumnies,
calumny,
con,
cons,
dazzle,
dazzled,
dazzles,
dazzling,
flesh,
heroism,
illness,
piety,
that is to say
«Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!»
«How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?»
«Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Funny,
Heroism
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Keywords:
belt,
belting,
belts,
belt up,
drowning,
heroine,
marries,
over again,
saved,
Ten Years Later
«How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!»
«Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.»