Gerald Massey Quotes

• They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

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  Truth, Mistake, Long

  Gerald Massey (1998). “The natural genesis, or, second part of A book of the beginnings: containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines of the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language, with Egypt for the mouthpiece and Africa as the birthplace”, Black Classic Pr

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• Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.

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  Christian, Jesus, Unique

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• They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

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  Inspirational, Life, Truth

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• The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood

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  Bible, People, Childhood

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• I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.

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  Fighting, Battle, Sides

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• The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

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  Hope, Dark

  Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.30

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• The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.

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  Heart, Fire, Rainbow

  Gerald Massey (1864). “Poems”, p.204

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• Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!

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  Love, Stars, Rays

  Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.394

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• There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

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  Kindness, Flower, World

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.87

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• Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile.

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  Smile, Joy, Delight

  "The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey".

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• A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth

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  Baby, Sweet, Flower

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.20

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• O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today-- The Harvest comes tomorrow.

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  Heart, Flames, Heaven

  Gerald Massey (1864). “Poems”, p.22

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• This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

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  Other Worlds, Might, This World

  Gerald Massey (1851). “Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love”, p.2

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• Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark Safely through all the Deluge of the dark.

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  Love, Dark, Earth

  Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1854). “Poems and ballads ... Containing the Ballad of babe Christabel ... Revised and corrected by the author”, p.29

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• Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer, heart to heart; The time will come, my own wed Wife, When you and I must part! Let nothing break our band but Death, For in the world above 'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth Our ring of Wedded Love.

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  Marriage, Heart, Wife

  Gerald Massey (1861). “Havelock's March and Other Poems”, p.259

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• The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.

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  Summer, Future, Eden

  Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.395

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• All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.

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  Tears, Hue, Radiance

  Gerald Massey (1889). “My Lyrical Life: Poems Old and New”

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• I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

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  Freedom, Ocean, Heart

  Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1854). “Poems and ballads ... Containing the Ballad of babe Christabel ... Revised and corrected by the author”, p.26

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• The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

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  Life, Heart, Magic

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.26

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• In this dim world of clouding cares,
  We rarely know, till wildered eyes
  See white wings lessening up the skies,
  The angels with us unawares.

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  Eye, Angel, Sky

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.15

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• In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.

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  Suffering, Sovereign, Immortal

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.16

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• When man to man shall be friend and brother.

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  Brother, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.182

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• Our dearest hopes in pangs are born,
  The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.

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  Hope, Kings, Crowns

  Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.138

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• Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

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  Life, Iron, Wheels

  Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.228

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• And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.

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  Stars, Dark, Jewels

  Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.14

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