Hugh Blair - Man Quotes

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An honest man will never employ an equivocal expression; a confused man may often utter ambiguous ones without any design.

Hugh Blair

Conscience is too great a power in the nature of man to be altogether subdued: it may for a time be repressed and kept dormant; but conjectures there are in human life which awaken it; and when once re-awakened, it flashes on the sinner's mind with all the horrors of an invisible ruler and a future judgment.

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Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others. It is just to say, as Dean Swift has done, that a man is too proud to be vain.

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A good man acts with a vigour, and suffers with a patience, more than human, when he believes himself countenanced by the Almighty.

Hugh Blair

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.

Hugh Blair