Hugh Blair Quotes

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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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Famous Hugh Blair Quotes

“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.”

“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

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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.”

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