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William Croswell Doane Quotes

My dear old dog, most constant of all friends.

My dear old dog, most constant of all friends.

William Croswell Doane
Friendship, Dog, Dear

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.

William Croswell Doane
Life, Motivational, Stars
"Addresses to the Graduating Classes of St. Agnes School".

The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.

William Croswell Doane
Struggle, Heart, Men
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 109), 1895.

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