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Hugh Blair Quotes: Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.
         

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.


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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.



Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.



The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.



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

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



What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.



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

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



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

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



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 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.



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 order.

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 order.



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

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





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