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Quotes from Address to the Tenth Graduating Class — William Croswell Doane

1832–1913 United States

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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.

Address to the Tenth Graduating Class (1881)

[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.

Address to the Tenth Graduating Class (1881)

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