Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Understanding

• Music cleanses the understanding;
  inspires it, and lifts it into a realm
  which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Motivation, Piano

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “One Thousand Gems”, p.474

• It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Understanding, Made

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Understanding, May, Matter

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Lectures on preaching. 2. Author's ed”, p.251

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