heroic
Speech parts
1. heroic - Noun
2. heroic - Adjective
3. heroic - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.
Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.
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A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.