 | National Sunday school union - 1863
...higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached, and kr.pt, Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling...eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to brighter destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, standing on its... | |
 | Robert Bailey Thomas - 1860
...TOIL. LONGFELLOW. ÍTE heights by great men reached ar,d kept Were not attained by sudden flight } But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. FLOWERS. MAItV HUWITT. GOD might h:ive made the earth bring forth Enough for great ami small } The... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853
...higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling...path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Fast As wholly wasted — wholly vain — If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we... | |
 | Charles Greenwood - 1855 - 423 pages
...accomplished his purpose. " 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." All that God, Providence, and men can do for an individual will be ineffectual without himself, his... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 319 pages
...higher levels rise. 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.' One more example of homely doctrine in a pleasing poetical dress must be quoted, for it is a general... | |
 | 1883
...by what we fear. " THE heights by great men reach'd and kept, Were not attain'd by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. — It is not generally known that the completion of this bridge was effected... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858
...higher levels rise. ' The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden Sight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling...— unseen before — A path to higher destinies. 1 Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To... | |
 | Unitarian pulpit - 1858
...flights of stairs. " 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." t * Sermons by John Henry Newman, p. 65. Rivington. t John viii. 29. t Miles Standish and other Poems,... | |
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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. 
