Gerald Massey quotes
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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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“They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : 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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“They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.”
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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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“A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.20
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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.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.15
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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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“All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1889). “My Lyrical Life: Poems Old and New”
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“Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.138
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“In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.16
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“Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : "The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey".
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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.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.26
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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.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1864). “Poems”, p.22
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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.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1861). “Havelock's March and Other Poems”, p.259
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“The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living shoots O' the old immortal seed start in the furrows; And, where Love looked on with glorious eye, These quicken'd germs of everlastingness Flower lusty, as of old in Paradise!”
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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!”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.394
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“Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark Safely through all the Deluge of the dark.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : 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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“Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.228
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“The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.”
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“The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.30
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“The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.395
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“When man to man shall be friend and brother.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.182
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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.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.14
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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.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1851). “Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love”, p.2
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“There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.87
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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.”
-- Gerald MasseySource : 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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