Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Citations
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Hyperion: A Romance. Samuel Colman, 1839.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England.