Were toiling upwards in the night.
The Ladder of St. Augustine. H. W. Longfellow.
Great men have not made flights very suddenly. They have slept with their companions while they were toiling to keep the heights they had attained.
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The heights that great men have kept out of reach were not attained by means of sudden flight. While their companions were sleeping they were up at all hours of the toiling night.
In the lexicon of Youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there’s no such word as Fail.
Richelieu. Edward Bulwer Lytton.
In the early days of youth which destiny waits for a better chance, there is no such word as fail.
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