Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.
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, … - 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, …
- Hugh Blair
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 orde… - Hugh Blair
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 orde…
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far… - 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…
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
It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner. - Hugh Blair
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world. - Hugh Blair
What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it. - Hugh Blair
What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing. - Hugh Blair
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.
To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman. - Hugh Blair
To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.
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