Quotes by Hugh Blair

Hugh Blair

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

Fundamentals

History

Quality

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.

Pain

Selfish

Sports

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Exercise

Fitness

Health

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Order

Temper

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

Gentleness

Offensive

Tenderness

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

Vicissitudes

Violent

World

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

Action

Eye

Motivation

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

Offense

Pride

World

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.

Charity

Injury

Molestation

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

Flow

Heart

Manners

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Action

Charity

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Clouds

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Cuckoos

Enjoyment

Exercise

Eye

Fitness

Flow

Fundamentals

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Giving

Health

Heart

History

Hygiene

Injury

Judging

Literature

Manners

Mediocrity

Men

Misery

Molestation

Motivation

Offense

Offensive

Order

Pain

Pride

Quality

Reflection

Selfish

Sports

Style

Taste

Temper

Tenderness

Thinking

Unhappy

Useless

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Views

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Weight

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Quotes by Hugh Blair

Hugh Blair

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

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

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

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

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

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.

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

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