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For the confessions of my past sins, which Thou hast forgiven and covered, that Thou mightest bless me in Thee, "}, {"id": "card_n_e86ce1a42d1e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_011: But what speak I of these things?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what speak I of these things? for now is no time to question, but to confess unto Thee. Wretched I was; and wretched is every soul bound by the friendship of perishable things; he is torn asunder "}, {"id": "card_n_c63aae5e49f5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_008: But that heaven of heavens was for Thyself, O Lord; but the earth which Thou ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But that heaven of heavens was for Thyself, O Lord; but the earth which Thou gavest to the sons of men, to be seen and felt, was not such as we now see and feel. 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For now hath"}, {"id": "card_n_d9a87d92cd43", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_013: By this may the soul, whose pilgrimage is made long and far away, by this may...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "By this may the soul, whose pilgrimage is made long and far away, by this may she understand, if she now thirsts for Thee, if her tears be now become her bread, while they daily say unto her, Where is"}, {"id": "card_n_38b69589ebda", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_028: Not one whit more easily are the words learnt for all this vileness; but by t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Not one whit more easily are the words learnt for all this vileness; but by their means the vileness is committed with less shame. 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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_382716b879d2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_022: Let them perish from Thy presence, O God, as perish vain talkers and seducers...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let them perish from Thy presence, O God, as perish vain talkers and seducers of the soul: who observing that in deliberating there were two wills, affirm that there are two minds in us of two kinds, "}, {"id": "card_n_7376c00ab91d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_016: And yet, I sinned herein, O Lord God, the Creator and Disposer of all things ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet, I sinned herein, O Lord God, the Creator and Disposer of all things in nature, of sin the Disposer only, O Lord my God, I sinned in transgressing the commands of my parents and those of my ma"}, {"id": "card_n_96b813bd9ef3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_007: For Thou, Lord, dost judge me: because, although no man knoweth the things of...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For Thou, Lord, dost judge me: because, although no man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him, yet is there something of man, which neither the spirit of man that is in "}, {"id": "card_n_6cd6d069475d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_001: Deceased was now that my evil and abominable youth, and I was passing into ea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Deceased was now that my evil and abominable youth, and I was passing into early manhood; the more defiled by vain things as I grew in years, who could not imagine any substance, but such as is wont t"}]}