• 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
  American poet 1819-1892
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. companions
2. reached
3. toiling
4. flight
5. upward
6. their

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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. by : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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