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You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven. ↗

— Charles Simeon

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If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#away #dim #enjoy #grow #live

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#fought #greatest #i #reality #successfully

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#cause #down #effect #end #eyes

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. ↗

— Charles Simic

#behind #equal #experience #never #orphan

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#consciousness #easy #hand #hardly #infinitely

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#both #conditions #development #men #metropolis

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#motivational

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#change #consists #individuality #inner #intensification