Quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Good Poems for Hard Times Post author By Beautiful Quotes Post date May 9, 2022 Categories In Good Poems for Hard Times, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow No Comments on Quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Good Poems for Hard Times The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.