Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.”
“He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.”
— HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Poet · 1807 – 1882
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator, among the most popular poets of his century. He wrote Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha and Evangeline, and produced the first American translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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