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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.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7fd62030354a93fb288d5aa5bae56a9fcb40a64b4951ae8b05f35f2095619ab1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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