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“No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.”

Knows Has Beens Done Whole Earth Humanity Born Race Blood Hero Died Deeds Mischief Precision

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!”

Men Earth Fall Stars Hero Clouds Rome Antiquity Apotheosis

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Littles Earth Wish Causes Accepting Atheism Son Hero Understood Regard Blind Ass My Son Monkeys Propositions Deaf Antithesis Baboons Foals

Book:Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues

Source: Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues

“The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.”

Men Matter Whole Earth Names Silence Principles Hero Perfection Ultimate Sacred

Book:On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions

Source: On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions