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.

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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. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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. - Aaron Allston quotes