[L]ife has no smooth road for any of us. And in the bracing… - William Croswell Doane

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[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

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William Croswell Doane (2 March 1832 – 17 May 1913) was the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States, from 1869 until his death in 1913.

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Alternative Names: William C. Doane • William Doane • Wm. C. Doane • W. C. Doane

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