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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. "
The African Repository - Page 334
1862
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The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany

Christian life - 1882 - 452 pages
...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 while 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...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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, 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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 121

American periodicals - 1874 - 990 pages
...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, Who far into the night...
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The Bible class magazine [ed. by C.H. Bateman]., Volumes 3-5

National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pages
...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 their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may...
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The (Old) Farmer's Almanack, Issues 69-78

Robert Bailey Thomas - Almanacs, American - 1860 - 628 pages
...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, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. FLOWERS. MAItV HUWITT. GOD might h:ive made the earth bring forth Enough for great...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, 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. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may...
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Outre-mer: a pilgrimage beyond the sea. To which are added, the latest poems ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...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, 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...
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Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association ..., Volume 8

Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1853 - 566 pages
...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, 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...
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Voices of the Dead

John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 316 pages
...by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. " So heights by good men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their...companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." CHAPTER III. THE TRANSLATED ONE. And after he was dead and gone, And e'en his memory dim, Earth seemed...
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Voices of the Dead

John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 308 pages
...by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. " So heights by good men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their...companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." CHAPTER III. THE TRANSLATED ONE. And after he was dead and gone, And e'en his memory dim, Earth seemed...
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