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Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream.
Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
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- Henry W. Longfellow
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- Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Longfellow. · page_134
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