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And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality,"}, {"id": "card_n_5c5443043503", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_003: How did corporeal matter deserve of Thee, to be even invisible and without form?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How did corporeal matter deserve of Thee, to be even invisible and without form? seeing it were not even this, but that Thou madest it, and therefore because it was not, could not deserve of Thee to b"}, {"id": "card_n_861d9856a221", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_002: And from Thee, O Lord, unto whose eyes the abyss of man's conscience is naked...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And from Thee, O Lord, unto whose eyes the abyss of man's conscience is naked, what could be hidden in me though I would not confess it? For I should hide Thee from me, not me from Thee. 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