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My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

As the master so the valet.

Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron; 'Tis heroes of the Yser, 'Tis sweethearts of glory, 'Tis lads who are unafraid! Ferryman ho!

I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one.

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know.

No man is a hero to his valet.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

To a valet no man is a hero.

But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.

It hath been an antient custom among them that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe.

The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. . . . . The flames roll'd on--he would not go Without his Father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard.

Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.

Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.