Henry Ward Beecher: It is defeat...

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Henry Ward Beecher: It is defeat...

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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible... Do not, then, be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, (Jun 24 1813-1887), US clergyman, abolitionist; He was famed as an orator of anti-slavery and woman suffrage; wrote Seven Lectures to Young Men, 1844.

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