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William Croswell Doane
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“Make us mindful of Thy mercies in the past, and faithful to the memories and traditions of truth and justice, of religion and patriotism, in those that have gone before us.”
William Croswell Doane (1832–1913) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a prayer offered by Bishop Doane on the occasion recorded in the pamphlet, Proceedings of the Legislature of the State of New York in Commemoration of Its Removal from the Old to the New Capitol. February 12, 1879 …
“Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads, and the strength that leads men on and up, in the great struggles of scientific pursuit, of professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty and makes a pleasure of duty.”
William Croswell Doane (1832–1913) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the Tenth Graduating Class" (1881), in Addresses to the Graduating Classes of St. Agnes School (New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1891), p. 121.
“[L]ife has no smooth road for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness 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 (1832–1913) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the Tenth Graduating Class" (1881), in Addresses to the Graduating Classes of St. Agnes School (New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1891), p. 123.
“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 (1832–1913) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 109.