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Comme devant un jour aller si loin

I suspect devant is what is causing trouble. It doesn’t mean “in front of” here but is the present participle of the modal verb devoir.

Il devrait aller loin.

translates to:

He shall go far. (It is anticipated that he will go far)

so:

[…] comme devant un jour aller si loin.

kind of literally translate to:

[…] as “shalling” one day go so far.

Of course, there is no such thing like shalling but I guess you got the idea.