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Hugh Blair Quotes
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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner (Hugh Blair Quotes)
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. (Hugh Blair Quotes)
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible (Hugh Blair Quotes)
It is difficult to descend with grace without seeming to fall (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man (Hugh Blair Quotes)
What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Men shiver when thou art named; nature appalled shakes off her wonted firmness (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events? (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Prosperity is often an equivocal word denoting merely affluence of possession (Hugh Blair Quotes)
The least degree of ambiguity which leaves the mind in suspense as to the meaning ought to be avoided with the greatest care (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Life will frequently languish, even in the hands of the busy, if they have not some employment subsidiary to that which forms their main pursuit (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Refined taste forms a good critic; but genius is further necessary to form the poet or the orator (Hugh Blair Quotes)
By indulging this fretful temper, you alienate those on whose affection much of your comfort depends (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards and the fawning assent of sycophants (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Time hurries on with a resistless, unremitting stream, yet treads more soft than e’er did midnight thief, that slides his hand under the miser’s pillow and carries off the prize (Hugh Blair Quotes)
A cultivated taste increases sensibility to all the tender and humane passions by giving them frequent exercise, while it tends to weaken the more violent and fierce emotions (Hugh Blair Quotes)
That reproach of modern times, that gulf of time and fortune, the passion for gaming, which is so often the refuge of the idle sons of pleasure and often, alas! The last resource of the ruined (Hugh Blair Quotes)
It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness (Hugh Blair Quotes)
All the principles which religion teaches, and all the habits which it forms, are favorable to strength of mind. It will be found that whatever purifies fortifies also the heart (Hugh Blair Quotes)
People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper they are in error the more angry they are (Hugh Blair Quotes)
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty (Hugh Blair Quotes)
You may discover tribes of men without policy, or laws, or cities, or any of the arts of life; but nowhere will you find them without some form of religion (Hugh Blair Quotes)
It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended (Hugh Blair Quotes)
Embellish truth only with a view to gain it the more full and free admission into your hearer’s minds; and your ornaments will, in that case, be simple, masculine, natural (Hugh Blair Quotes)
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