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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
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.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
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