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> [The heights that great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flights; but they, while their companions slept, toiled upwards in the night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longfellow/the-heights-that-great-men-reached-and-kept-were-not-attained-by/)

[Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longfellow/)

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## More by Longfellow

> [Kind hearts are gardens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longfellow/kind-hearts-are-gardens/)

[Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longfellow/)

> [“The song and the silence in the heart, That in part are prophecies, and in part Are longings wild and vain”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longfellow/the-song-and-the-silence-in-the-heart-that-in-part-are-prophecies-and/)

[Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longfellow/)

> [“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longfellow/it-takes-less-time-to-do-a-thing-right-than-to-explain-why-you-did-it/)

[Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longfellow/)

> [“Our ingress into the world was naked and bare; our progress through the world is trouble and care; our egress from the world will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longfellow/our-ingress-into-the-world-was-naked-and-bare-our-progress-through-2/)

[Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longfellow/)

> [The heights that great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flights; but they, while their companions slept, toiled upwards in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longfellow/the-heights-that-great-men-reached-and-kept-were-not-attained-by/)

[Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longfellow/)

> [“Resistance by its very nature demands that we choose choices not offered to us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longfellow/resistance-by-its-very-nature-demands-that-we-choose-choices-not/)

[Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longfellow/)

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