{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_033: It is not certain t", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4025b1b3744f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_003: And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not what depth of abyss, upon which there was no light, because it had no shape. Therefore didst Thou command it to be written, "}, {"id": "card_n_0500da92d451", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_033: It is not certain then that all wish to be happy, inasmuch as they who wish n...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is not certain then that all wish to be happy, inasmuch as they who wish not to joy in Thee, which is the only happy life, do not truly desire the happy life. 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And there was"}, {"id": "card_n_cda34feddf74", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_007: Among such as these, in that unsettled age of mine, learned I books of eloque...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Among such as these, in that unsettled age of mine, learned I books of eloquence, wherein I desired to be eminent, out of a damnable and vainglorious end, a joy in human vanity. In the ordinary course"}, {"id": "card_n_6bd1867c8704", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_026: Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless manifoldness; and this thing is the mind, and this am I myself. What am I then, O my God? What nature am I? A life various"}, {"id": "card_n_3aada1e2b5a3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_023: The day now approaching whereon she was to depart this life (which day Thou w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The day now approaching whereon she was to depart this life (which day Thou well knewest, we knew not), it came to pass, Thyself, as I believe, by Thy secret ways so ordering it, that she and I stood "}, {"id": "card_c_0059da1cce6e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_ → Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential next in augustine_confessions."}]}