“Manhood is tested by trial, and valour climbs unterrified the rocky path and difficult ascent that leads to glory.”
Explorant adversa viros, perque aspera duro
nititur ad laudem virtus interrita clivo.
Book IV, lines 603–604
Punica
“There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.”
The Way (1913).
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
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Slow is the ascent by the path of Love." by Ella Wheeler Wilcox?
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