Emily Dickinson Quotes, Christian Quotes, Morning Quotes

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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in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

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The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.

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Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

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Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.

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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

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Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell

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The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

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That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

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Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -

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A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away

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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

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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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Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

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A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

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Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

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As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity.

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