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“We have met young men who judge everything before learning to admire anything; who see the fault before the good, overanalyse, but never rejoice.”

Original: Yr ydym wedi cwrdd â rhai dynion ieuainc yn barnu popeth cyn dysgu edmygu dim; gweld y bai cyn gweld y da, yn gorfanylu, ond byth yn gorfoleddu. — Warning against learning to criticise before learning to admire · Sermon, Sul y Blodau, 31 March 1903 (Welsh)

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Watcyn Wyn

7 March 1844–19 November 1905

In the rolling hills of Carmarthenshire, where the coal dust mingles with morning mist and the Welsh language flows like the streams that carve the valleys, a remarkable story unfolded in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is the story of Watkin Hezekiah Williams, better known by his bardic name Watcyn Wyn…

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