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Heroics can be costly and involve some degree of personal danger for the participating wizard.
But for the truly resourceful magician, this does not have to be!...
Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto vi, Stanza 7...
Heroine" is perhaps as peculiar a word as any in our language
he two first letters of it are a male, the three first a female, the four first a brave man, and the whole word a brave woman....
Heroism is endurance for one moment more. -- George F. Kenna
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
-- Albert Einstei...
Heroism- the divine relation which in all times unites a great men to other men. -- Carlyle
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
-- Mathew Henry (1662-1714) -- Commentaries, Psalm xxxvi...
hero loop: aerial maneuver performed by a valiant climber.
-- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
-- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial, Chap. v...
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
-- James Thurbe...

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