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No one was anxious to get rid of Paul.
He'd been the hero of the mountain camps
Ever since, just to show them, he had slipped
The bark of a whole tamarack off whole....
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Paul's Wife.")
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.
(Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet, Jesuit priest. sermon, Nov. 23, 1879. Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins, ed. W.H. Gardner (1953).)
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No one was anxious to get rid of Paul.
He'd been the hero of the mountain camps
Ever since, just to show them, he had slipped
The bark of a whole tamarack off whole....
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Paul's Wife.")
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Newspaperman: That was a magnificent work. There were these mass columns of Apaches in their war paint and feather bonnets. And here was Thursday leading his men in that heroic charge.
Capt. York: Correct in every detail.
Newspaperman: He's become almost a legend already. He's the hero of every schoolboy in America.
(Frank S. Nugent (1908-1965), U.S. screenwriter. John Ford. Newspaperman (Frank Ferguson) and Capt. Kirby York (John Wayne), Fort Apache, discussing a painting in which the folly of "Thursday's Charge" has been overlooked in favor of its glorification as legend (1948).
Based on the story "Massacre" by James Warner Bellah.)
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I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
(Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. Letter, April 26, 1748, first published (1774). The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, vol. 1, no. 149, ed. Charles Strachey (1901).)
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I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people—the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism—it is mere fetish.... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.
(George Borrow (1803-1881), British author. An elderly individual, in Lavengro, ch. 23 (1851).)
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While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy "Man",
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
(Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. Ligeia (l. 38-40). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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The bald little prompter shuts his book, as the light fades gently. The end, the end. They all go back to their everyday life (and Clare goes back to her grave)Mbut the hero remains, for try as I may, I cannot get out of my part: Sebastian's mask clings to my face, the likeness will not be washed off. I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we are both someone whom neither of us knows.
(Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Sebastian, in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, ch. 20 (1941).
The book's ending.)
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