Henry Mackenzie famous quotes

Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain respect for the follies of mankind: for there are so many fools whom the opinion of the world entitles to regard, whom accident has placed in heights of which they are unworthy, that he who cannot restrain his contempt or indignation at the sight will be too often quarrelling with the disposal of things to relish that share which is allotted to himself. 
-- Henry Mackenzie

#Men #Sight #People

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
-- Henry Mackenzie

#Men #Belief #He Man

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.
-- Henry Mackenzie

#Monsters #Mankind #Deceived

There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove.
-- Henry Mackenzie

#Two #Feelings #World

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.
-- Henry Mackenzie

#Book #Ignorance #Mean

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.
-- Henry Mackenzie

#Arrows #Remembrance #Joy

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.
-- Henry Mackenzie

#People #Giving #Heaven

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death.
-- Henry Mackenzie

#Fighting #Satisfaction #Hazards

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.
-- Henry Mackenzie

#Sadness #Men #Sorrow

No one man is superior to the game.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.