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Two are the pathways by which mankind can to virtue mount upward; If thou shouldst find the one barr'd, open the other will lie. 'Tis by exertion the Happy obtain her, the Suffering by patience, Blest is the man whose kind fate guides him along upon both!
Two are the pathways by which mankind can to virtue mount upward; If thou shouldst find the one barr'd, open the other will lie. 'Tis by exertion the Happy obtain her, the Suffering by patience, Blest is the man whose kind fate guides him along upon both!
Approximate author period: c. 1782 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- Schiller
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- Approximate author period: c. 1782 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1759–1805)
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 416; printed byline: Schiller; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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