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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.
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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 W. Longfellow (1807-1882)
-- The Ladder of Saint Augustine
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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.
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Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
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