{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_006: But while in that m", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_38ee1dc6bf0b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_006: But while in that my sixteenth year I lived with my parents, leaving all scho...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But while in that my sixteenth year I lived with my parents, leaving all school for a while (a season of idleness being interposed through the narrowness of my parents' fortunes), the briers of unclea"}, {"id": "card_n_8fcb53d51da5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_027: I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to say, this time is twice so much as that one; or, this is just so much as that; and so of any other parts of time, which be m"}, {"id": "card_n_5fdb4249401c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_024: Which way soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Which way soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that only can be seen, which is. 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Far better was that first study.\" For, lo, I would readily forget the wanderings of Aeneas and all the rest, rat"}, {"id": "card_n_b9c13a8b9681", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_010: Why, I beseech Thee, O Lord my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Why, I beseech Thee, O Lord my God? I see it in a way; but how to express it, I know not, unless it be, that whatsoever begins to be, and leaves off to be, begins then, and leaves off then, when in Th"}, {"id": "card_n_d2e50284c7f6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_027: What answer I made her unto these things, I remember not.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What answer I made her unto these things, I remember not. For scarce five days after, or not much more, she fell sick of a fever; and in that sickness one day she fell into a swoon, and was for a whil"}, {"id": "card_n_ef531b679a49", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_029: I heard once from a learned man, that the motions of the sun, moon, and stars...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I heard once from a learned man, that the motions of the sun, moon, and stars, constituted time, and I assented not. For why should not the motions of all bodies rather be times? Or, if the lights of "}, {"id": "card_n_5232a0af5850", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_034: Courage, my mind, and press on mightily.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Courage, my mind, and press on mightily. God is our helper, He made us, and not we ourselves. Press on where truth begins to dawn. Suppose, now, the voice of a body begins to sound, and does sound, an"}, {"id": "card_n_aa0641f821ac", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_020: While I went over these things, and these winds shifted and drove my heart th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "While I went over these things, and these winds shifted and drove my heart this way and that, time passed on, but I delayed to turn to the Lord; and from day to day deferred to live in Thee, and defer"}, {"id": "card_n_b1673ad3a7e6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_007: Woe is me!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Woe is me! and dare I say that Thou heldest Thy peace, O my God, while I wandered further from Thee? Didst Thou then indeed hold Thy peace to me? And whose but Thine were these words which by my mothe"}, {"id": "card_n_69eb8810552c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_046: Thou hast taught me, good Father, that to the pure, all things are pure; but ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou hast taught me, good Father, that to the pure, all things are pure; but that it is evil unto the man that eateth with offence; and, that every creature of Thine is good, and nothing to be refused"}, {"id": "card_n_179a4d8207ae", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_011: Hear, O God.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure fro"}, {"id": "card_n_e801b85240d9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_012: Which of us comprehendeth the Almighty Trinity?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Which of us comprehendeth the Almighty Trinity? and yet which speaks not of It, if indeed it be It? Rare is the soul, which while it speaks of It, knows what it speaks of. And they contend and strive,"}, {"id": "card_n_764bd12dea2d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_044: This hast Thou taught me, that I should set myself to take food as physic.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This hast Thou taught me, that I should set myself to take food as physic. But while I am passing from the discomfort of emptiness to the content of replenishing, in the very passage the snare of conc"}, {"id": "card_n_a31688f13822", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_062: Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praise...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praises, for my own sake, but for the good of my neighbour. And whether it be so with me, I know not. For herein I know less of m"}, {"id": "card_n_055f3f978210", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_020: But why did I so much hate the Greek, which I studied as a boy?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But why did I so much hate the Greek, which I studied as a boy? I do not yet fully know. For the Latin I loved; not what my first masters, but what the so-called grammarians taught me. 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