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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet of the eighteenth century. His poems have a musical quality about them. He often used mythology and legend as his primary subject.

Hope
Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

Perseverance, Persistence
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Victory
In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Time
It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.

Love
Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Happiness
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not trouble with great ambitions.

Friendship
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Love
The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.

Hope
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

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