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“Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.”

Quote by Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was a renowned American poet of the 19th century, known for her unique poetic style and profound introspection. Her poetry is characterized by its concise form and philosophical language, often exploring themes such as life, death, nature, and religion. more

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“I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.”

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Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.”

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Author:Emily Dickinson

“I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.”

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Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.”

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Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.”

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“You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.”

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Author:Emily Dickinson

“What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been.”

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Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!”

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Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.”

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Author:Emily Dickinson

“Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.”

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Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson