“God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I t…”

“God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts. Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles.”

— Emily Dickinson

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Title: Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson
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Context

Letter to Abiah Root (29 January 1850); Mabel Loomis Todd (ed.) Letters of Emily Dickinson, vol. 1 (Boston: Roberts Bros, 1894) p. 39 [http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/abiah_root

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Dickinson, Emily. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

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