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And yet did I not press on to enjoy my God; but was borne up to Thee by Thy beauty, and soon borne down from Thee by mine own weight, si"}, {"id": "card_n_2d9d9ecf6173", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_011: That greediness then, wherewith I had of so long time expected that man, was ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "That greediness then, wherewith I had of so long time expected that man, was delighted verily with his action and feeling when disputing, and his choice and readiness of words to clothe his ideas. 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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_a5b9a29d7cf1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_015: These things considered, as much as Thou givest, O my God, as much as Thou st...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things considered, as much as Thou givest, O my God, as much as Thou stirrest me up to knock, and as much as Thou openest to me knocking, two things I find that Thou hast made, not within the co"}, {"id": "card_n_8ef01c62e191", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_020: Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such motions as men sometimes would, but cannot, if either they have not the limbs, or these be bound with bands, weakened with"}, {"id": "card_n_09118272b605", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_016: And lo, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was goi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And lo, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was going down to hell, carrying all the sins which I had committed, both against Thee, and myself, and others, many and grievous,"}, {"id": "card_n_50e60fde274b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_009: Upon hearing and believing these things, told by one of such credibility, all...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Upon hearing and believing these things, told by one of such credibility, all that my resistance gave way; and first I endeavoured to reclaim Firminus himself from that curiosity, by telling him that "}, {"id": "card_n_ea68f242155c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_023: Continual effort was made to have me married.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Continual effort was made to have me married. I wooed, I was promised, chiefly through my mother's pains, that so once married, the health-giving baptism might cleanse me, towards which she rejoiced t"}, {"id": "card_n_c55b37eee6ab", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_016: What fruit had I then (wretched man!) in those things, of the remembrance whe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What fruit had I then (wretched man!) in those things, of the remembrance whereof I am now ashamed? Especially, in that theft which I loved for the theft's sake; and it too was nothing, and therefore "}, {"id": "card_n_a5aa22221d3c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_048: We have also examined what Thou willedst to be shadowed forth, whether by the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We have also examined what Thou willedst to be shadowed forth, whether by the creation, or the relation of things in such an order. And we have seen, that things singly are good, and together very goo"}, {"id": "card_n_5582e73ffe05", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_013: And how Thou didst deliver me out of the bonds of desire, wherewith I was bou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And how Thou didst deliver me out of the bonds of desire, wherewith I was bound most straitly to carnal concupiscence, and out of the drudgery of worldly things, I will now declare, and confess unto T"}, {"id": "card_n_13fea045d567", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_045: I hear the voice of my God commanding, Let not your hearts be overcharged wit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I hear the voice of my God commanding, Let not your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness. Drunkenness is far from me; Thou wilt have mercy, that it come not near me. But full feeding "}, {"id": "card_n_d0cb70bb0b70", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_008: What then takes place in the soul, when it is more delighted at finding or re...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then takes place in the soul, when it is more delighted at finding or recovering the things it loves, than if it had ever had them? yea, and other things witness hereunto; and all things are full"}, {"id": "card_n_6b2ff4052ffb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_022: I began then diligently to practise that for which I came to Rome, to teach r...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I began then diligently to practise that for which I came to Rome, to teach rhetoric; and first, to gather some to my house, to whom, and through whom, I had begun to be known; when lo, I found other "}, {"id": "card_n_c17c03335db6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_004: But I also as yet, although I held and was firmly persuaded that Thou our Lor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But I also as yet, although I held and was firmly persuaded that Thou our Lord the true God, who madest not only our souls, but our bodies, and not only our souls and bodies, but all beings, and all t"}]}