Christian Nestell Bovee - Perhaps the heroic element in our natures

Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.

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Bovee, Christian Nestell. Thoughts, Feelings, and Fancies. Wiley & Halsted, 1857.

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