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“But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.”

Quote by William Croswell Doane

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William Croswell Doane
William Croswell Doane

William Croswell Doane, born on March 2, 1832, and died on May 17, 1913, was an individual of an unknown profession or category. more

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