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
“Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal.”
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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