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“It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity -Be grateful, my soul -My life was worth living.He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious.”

“It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.”

Wells Has Beens Soul Hard Genius Hero Periods Ambition Saint Your Soul Captains

Book:A Preface to Morals

Source: A Preface to Morals

“The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.”

Soul Failing Youth Hero Admire Admiration Projection Intoxicated

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!”

Ifs Stills Soul Beautiful Strong Wise Hero Saint Seeds Godlike Bards

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!”

Soul Hero Holy Highest Your Soul Idealism Hope And Love

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”

Needs Soul Action Millions Hero Ruins Sentiments

Author:Paul Watson

“Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.”

Heart Soul Action Ought Hero Tragedy France

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.”

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd