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Hugh Blair, né le 7 avril 1718, à Édimbourg, où il meurt le 27 décembre 1800 et un prédicateur et critique écossais. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. avril 1718 – 27. décembre 1800
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Hugh Blair: Citations en anglais

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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 420.

“Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. – In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? – Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?”

Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, https://books.google.com/books?id=zlMxAAAAIAAJ ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 23.

“Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness.”

Reported in The Saturday Magazine‎ (September 28, 1833), p. 118 https://books.google.com/books?id=jh_nAAAAMAAJ&pg=118.

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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 386.

“Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. – In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind?”

Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, https://books.google.com/books?id=zlMxAAAAIAAJ ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 23.

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