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Letter "H" » heroes
«Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.»
«History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.»
Author: David C. McCullough
| About:
Books,
History,
Literature,
Reading
| Keywords:
attainments, betrayals, depravities, depths, heroes, monsters
«Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.»
«Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood /for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.»
Author: Graham Greene
| Keywords:
clock, complicated, contradictory, defeated, details, disappointing, faultless, formed, Grown up, heroes, in the long run, long run, No Hero, of our own, promised, rule book, satisfy, simplicities, swordsman, The Long Run, The Rules
«Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.»
Author: Peter S. Beagle
(Writer)
| About:
Ending
| Keywords:
abandoned, come in, ending, Happy ending, heroes, quest, The Story, The Unicorns, unicorns
«For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone / when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will / then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought / the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do / can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| Keywords:
army, commands, dead end, Dead Ends, external, Great Gulf, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, heroes, Idealists, isolated, isolating, Joy of, lay in, move around, moving around, No Hero, postponed, prophetic, rapture, raptures, subtle, surrounds, The Rapture, The Thinker, thinker, trappings, unshaken
«As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary»
«Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Grace
| Keywords:
decorate, decorated, decorates, decorating, grace, heal, heroes, sick, spiritually
«How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!»
«All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
answered, bogey, capped, caps, dislikes, early childhood, encountered, face value, heroes, intensities, labeled, masks, penetrable, races, stocking, stockings, tactic, tactics, the town, town, unanswered
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