About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 – 1882
American poet, author of 'The Song of Hiawatha' and 'Paul Revere's Ride'.
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“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”
“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and having people in them, acting.”