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Let my heart and my tongue praise Thee; yea,"}, {"id": "card_n_5d4220bafc3a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_006: This is the fruit of my confessions of what I am, not of what I have been, to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This is the fruit of my confessions of what I am, not of what I have been, to confess this, not before Thee only, in a secret exultation with trembling, and a secret sorrow with hope; but in the ears "}, {"id": "card_n_a84edfe2920a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_003: O Lord my God, give ear unto my prayer, and let Thy mercy hearken unto my des...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord my God, give ear unto my prayer, and let Thy mercy hearken unto my desire: because it is anxious not for myself alone, but would serve brotherly charity; and Thou seest my heart, that so it is."}, {"id": "card_n_f7e96a29ed3c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_005: For that year were my studies intermitted: whilst after my return from Madaur...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For that year were my studies intermitted: whilst after my return from Madaura (a neighbour city, whither I had journeyed to learn grammar and rhetoric), the expenses for a further journey to Carthage"}, {"id": "card_n_3f19baf7aecd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_024: Hear, Lord, my prayer; let not my soul faint under Thy discipline, nor let me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hear, Lord, my prayer; let not my soul faint under Thy discipline, nor let me faint in confessing unto Thee all Thy mercies, whereby Thou hast drawn me out of all my most evil ways, that Thou mightest"}, {"id": "card_n_c92219bd1b79", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_018: I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or wa"}, {"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. 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Who shall comprehend? Who dec"}, {"id": "card_n_b51fbf0407f9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_030: And what did it profit me, that all the books I could procure of the so-calle...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And what did it profit me, that all the books I could procure of the so-called liberal arts, I, the vile slave of vile affections, read by myself, and understood? 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