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Thomas Carlyle on Heroes

1795–1881 Scotland

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

Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)

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

Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

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

A Hero is a Hero at all points; in the soul and thought of him first of all.

Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)

Unless some Hero-worship, in its new appropriate form, can return, this world does not promise to be very habitable long.

Past and Present (1843)

[T]his same Man-of-Letters Hero must be regarded as our most important modern person. He, such as he may be, is the soul of all.

Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Carlyle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.