Henry Mackenzie Quotes

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

Henry Mackenzie

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

Autobiography, the confession of a person to himself instead of the priest—generally gets absolution too easily.

Henry Mackenzie

In knowledge and philosophy be careful to distinguish that the purpose of research should ever be fixed on making simple what is abstruse, not abstruse what is simple

Henry Mackenzie

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

Henry Mackenzie

Henry Mackenzie

Henry Mackenzie

Born: August 26, 1745

Died: January 14, 1831 (aged 85)

Bio: Henry Mackenzie was a Scottish lawyer, novelist and writer. He was also known by the sobriquet "Addison of the North.

Known for:

The Man of Feeling (1771)
Julia De Roubigné (1786)
The Man of the World (1773)

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