We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton… — Hugh Blair Amusement Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Affection Copy Share Image
To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman. — Hugh Blair Creatures Copy Share Image
As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian. — Hugh Blair Accuracy Copy Share Image
It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had… — Hugh Blair Harshness Copy Share Image
Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of… — Hugh Blair Breach Copy Share Image
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing. — Hugh Blair Flow Copy Share Image
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions. — Hugh Blair Action Copy Share Image
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight;… — Hugh Blair Cases Copy Share Image
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing. — Hugh Blair Executing Copy Share Image
Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think… — Hugh Blair Accuracy Copy Share Image
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world. — Hugh Blair Ability Copy Share Image
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind,… — Hugh Blair Behavior Copy Share Image
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which… — Hugh Blair Arise Copy Share Image
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. — Hugh Blair Bible Copy Share Image
Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order. — Hugh Blair Order Copy Share Image
