| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 28986 |
| QUOTATION: | Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.
Why do sinners’ ways prosper? and why must
Disappointment all I endeavour end? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), British poet, Jesuit priest. Thou art indeed just, Lord (written 1889), published in Poems (1918). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Hopkins Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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