The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies...

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Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

—Benjamin Disraeli

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

—Benjamin Disraeli

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

—Benjamin Disraeli

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

—Benjamin Disraeli

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

—Alice Walker

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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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