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Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887) was a theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman and reformer, and author who was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the eighth of nine children of Lyman Beecher by his first wife (and the eighth of thirteen children in all). One of his elder sisters was Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

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"Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong."

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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."

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"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

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"No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself."

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"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause."

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"Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes."

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"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

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"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."

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