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British author born on April 7, 1718, and died on December 27, 1800. Hugh Blair is renowned for his contributions to literature and education, particularly in the Scottish literary and academic circles.

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“Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants. It removes no just right from fear; it gives up no important truth from flattery; it is, indeed, not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit and a fixed principle in order to give it any real value.”

Character Virtue Honesty Trust Discernment

Author:Hugh Blair

“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.”

Ifs Cases Worry Trouble Weak Weight Useless Vain Providence Distrust

Author:Hugh Blair

“It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.”

Ifs World Pride Offense Offended Severity Harshness

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“Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.”

Men Enjoyment Mediocrity

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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.”

“Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.”

Judging Genius Taste Executing

Book:The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Source: The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works

“As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.”

Ends Quality History Records Fundamentals Primaries Historian Fidelity Accuracy Impartiality

Book:Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

“Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.”

Tenderness Offensive Gentleness

Book: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

Source: 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

“The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.”

Literature Style Standards Purity Hygiene Exactness

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“What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.”

Author:Hugh Blair

“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.”

Giving Kind Spirit Social Behavior Clouds Breathe Ease Native Temper Disposition Cheerful Gentleness Brows True Religion Cloudy

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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.”

Men Want Made Feelings Views Common Principles Failing Share Conditions Duty Reflection Arise Native Gentleness

Book:Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author

Source: Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author

“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.”

Thinking Order Sentences Accuracy Time To Think

Author:Hugh Blair

“Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.”

Heart Flow Manners

Book: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

Source: 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

“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.”

Creatures Fellows Charity Ill Injury Temper Indulgence Breach Molestation

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“Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.”

World Humans Ability Violent Unforeseen Vicissitudes

Book: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

Source: 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

“To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.”

Creatures Misery Unhappy Cruelty Inhuman Human Cruelty

Book:The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Source: The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works

“We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”

Pain Sports Ought Treats Cruelty Distress Insects Amusement Wanton Cuckoos

Book:The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Source: The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works

“In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.”

Whole Eye Action Motivation Supreme Motive Internals Disposition Supreme Being

Book: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

Source: 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

“Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.”

Health Source Exercise Improvement Chiefs Faculty Fitness Fitness Motivational

Book: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

Source: 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