Cases Quote by Hugh Blair

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

Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart…

— Hugh Blair

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

— Hugh Blair

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

— Hugh Blair

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

— Hugh Blair

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

— 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.

— Hugh Blair

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

— Hugh Blair

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…

— Hugh Blair

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

— Hugh Blair

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

— Hugh Blair

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

— Hugh Blair