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heroic
«Tenors are noble, pure and heroic and get the soprano, if she has not tragically expired before the final curtain. But baritones are born villains in opera. Always the heavy and never the hero-that's me.»
«Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Children,
Poetry
| Keywords:
hereditary, heroic, lends, opens
«The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
adventures, compete, deliver, eighteen, emancipate, emancipated, emancipating, enrich, family business, garret, gluttonous, heroic, immortalize, infamous, papa, precocity, prisoner, run away, sublime, the Son, tower, twelve
«The greatest obstacle to being heroic is to 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.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
heroic, heroism, obeyed, obstacle, profoundest, resisted, truest
«The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, / The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, / Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; / Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear it by-and-by.»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bard, bards, by and by, hard of hearing, heroic, Higher Ground, proved, the bard, The Lover, The Passion
«The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper»
«The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
followers, Good Time, heroic, human blood, pinch, pinched, pinches, pinching, safety, sentiments, sweat, toil
«There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy»
«The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abide, abide by, by fits and starts, fits, generosity, genuine, heroic, heroism, impulses, persistency, reconcile, resolved, wandering, weakly