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" The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. "
Gaillard's Medical Journal and the American Medical Weekly - Page 592
1886
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The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany

1882 - 452 pages
...Are crossed by pathways that appear, As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they...their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night."1 And we do not need philosophy to tell us that this life is very short. Christianity assures...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 121

1874 - 990 pages
...not be all vainly — As good as poor Joey to be ! Punch. A PLEA. The heights of great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night. — Longfellow. ALAS ! for those companions who have slept Upon that weary way,...
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The (Old) Farmer's Almanack, Issues 69-78

Robert Bailey Thomas - 1860 - 628 pages
...Abernethy, " it is open to that objection." GAIN BY TOIL. LONGFELLOW. ÍTE heights by great men reached ar,d kept Were not attained by sudden flight } But they,...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. FLOWERS. MAItV HUWITT. GOD might h:ive made the earth bring forth Enough for great ami small } The...
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The Bible class magazine [ed. by C.H. Bateman]., Volumes 3-5

National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pages
...crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached, and kr.pt, Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen...
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Outre-mer: a pilgrimage beyond the sea. To which are added, the latest poems ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night, Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight ; But...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 37

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 622 pages
...recalls a stanza of LONGFELLOW'S : 'Tue heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by xudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night/ Very, wry few of our great men but have ' sprung from the ranks ; ' and fewer still, who were not born,...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 3

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1852 - 880 pages
...presents the most striking illustration of the truth of the sentiment, "The heights by great raen reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companione slept, Were toiling upward in the night." One cloudless morning, just after the «un hml...
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Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association ..., Volume 8

Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 pages
...skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen...
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Wellington: a Lecture

John Cumming - 1853 - 212 pages
...that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reach'd and kept, Were not attain'd by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen...
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