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Charles Mackay

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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.


— Charles Mackay


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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.


— Charles Mackay


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He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.


— Charles Mackay


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Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.


— Charles Mackay


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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.


— Charles Mackay


#go #herds #mad #men #only

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.


— Charles Mackay


#away #before #death #decay #dies

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.


— Charles Mackay


#eyes #glory #good #good time #iniquity

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.


— Charles Mackay


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In the autumn of 1844 he moved to Scotland and became editor of the Glasgow Argus resigning in 1847. During the American Civil War he returned there as a correspondent for the Times in which capacity he discovered and disclosed the Fenian conspiracy. In the autumn of 1839 he spent a month's holiday in Scotland witnessing the Eglintoun Tournament which he described in the Chronicle and making acquaintances in Edinburgh.

Charles Mackay (26 March 1812 – 24 December 1889) was a Scottish poet journalist author anthologist novelist and songwriter remembered mainly for his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

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