Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.
The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.