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“Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.”

Stills Hands Spirit Race Hero Lamps

Book:Andromeda: And Other Poems

Source: Andromeda: And Other Poems

“Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes, partly because they really were men of heroic mold but chiefly because they represented so compellingly the spirit of their time.”

Men Spirit Names Language Progress Hero Achievement Heroic Geography Mold Nothing New Scientific Progress Mt Everest

Author:Edmund Hillary

“Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes; his life and fortunes had depended on the caprice of a tyrant; and, when he ascended the throne, his pride was sometimes mortified by the reflection that the slaves who would not dare to censure his defects were not worthy to applaud his virtues.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“The final cover for Heroes Are My Weakness feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.”

Giving Feels Spirit Cold Hero Giving Up Weakness Finals Refuse Setting Settings Islands Isolated Odds Coast Heroines Maine Feisty

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.”

Stills Form Spirit Nations Poor Divine Hero Ancient Revelations Paganism Pagan Obsolete

Book:Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian

Source: Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian