Gerald Massey Quotes (1828-1907)

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“The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.”

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“One sharp stern struggle and the slaves of centuries are free.”

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“The time shall come
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.”

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

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

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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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Gerald Massey on Infant 3 quotes

“A sweet, new blossom of Humanity, Fresh fallen from God's own home to flower on earth.”

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Gerald Massey on Hope

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

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Gerald Massey on Ageing

“Set is the sun of my years; And over a few poor ashes, I sit in my darkness and tears.”

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Gerald Massey on Kindness

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

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Gerald Massey on World

“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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Gerald Massey on Bliss

“And my heart rocked its babe of bliss, And soothed its child of air, With something 'twixt a song and kiss, To keep it nestling there.”

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Gerald Massey on Angels

“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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Gerald Massey on Death

“She thought our good-night kiss was given, And like a lily her life did close; Angels uncurtain'd that repose, And the next waking dawn'd in heaven.”

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Gerald Massey on Opportunity

“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.”

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Gerald Massey on Wedding

“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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Gerald Massey on Immortality

“Of such as he was, there be few on earth; Of such as he is, there are few in Heaven: And life is all the sweeter that he lived, And all he loved more sacred for his sake: And Death is all the brighter that he died, And Heaven is all the happier that he's there.”

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Gerald Massey on Heart

“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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Gerald Massey on Women

“Day unto day her dainty hands    Make Life's soiled temples clean, And there's a wake of glory where    Her spirit pure hath been. At midnight, thro' that shadow-land,    Her living face doth gleam; The dying kiss her shadow, and    The Dead smile in their dream.”

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