Hugh Blair quotes
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“Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.”
-- Hugh BlairSource : Hugh Blair (1798). “Sentimental Beauties from the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected with a View to Refine the Taste, Rectify the Judgment, and Mould the Heart to Virtue”, p.247
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“Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.”
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“It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.”
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“To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.”
-- Hugh BlairSource : Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.18
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“Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.”
-- Hugh BlairSource : Hugh Blair (1827). “Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait”, p.45
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“What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.”
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“The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.”
-- Hugh BlairSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
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“Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.”
-- Hugh BlairSource : Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.118
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“Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.”
-- Hugh BlairSource : Hugh Blair (1827). “Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait”, p.17
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“True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.”
-- Hugh BlairSource : Hugh Blair (1824). “Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author”, p.117
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“Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.”
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“Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.”
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“Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.”
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“Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”
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“In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.”
-- Hugh BlairSource : Hugh Blair (1827). “Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait”, p.150
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“Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.”
-- Hugh BlairSource : Hugh Blair (1827). “Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait”, p.45
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“The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.”
-- Hugh BlairSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
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“Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.”
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“We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”
-- Hugh BlairSource : Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.18
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“As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.”
-- Hugh BlairSource : Hugh Blair (1858). “Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair”, p.263
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