“None is so deaf as those that will not hear.”
Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales
Psalm 58.
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Variant: None so blind as those that will not see.
“there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.”
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shall force those deaf dark powers to grow ears and hear us!
I know that God is earless, eyeless, and heartless too,
a brainless Dragon Worm that crawls on earth and hopes
in anguish and then in secret that we'll give him soul,
for then he, too, may sprout ears, eyes, to match his growth,
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