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Henry Ward Beecher: It inspires labor by hope of fruition, and intensifies it by the fear of non-fruition.

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It inspires labor by hope of fruition, and intensifies it by the fear of non-fruition.
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Henry Ward Beecher

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He describes how hope and fear motivate labor and its outcomes.

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