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But let us examine that also; because neither is one day present as a whole. For it is"}, {"id": "card_n_d8c135acee77", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_017: Amidst these offences of foulness and violence, and so many iniquities, are s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Amidst these offences of foulness and violence, and so many iniquities, are sins of men, who are on the whole making proficiency; which by those that judge rightly, are, after the rule of perfection, "}, {"id": "card_n_7e891a819d77", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_007: Being led, however, from this to prefer the Catholic doctrine, I felt that he...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Being led, however, from this to prefer the Catholic doctrine, I felt that her proceeding was more unassuming and honest, in that she required to be believed things not demonstrated (whether it was th"}, {"id": "card_n_9d644c0fb4e4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_015: Is there, Lord, any of soul so great, and cleaving to Thee with so intense af...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Is there, Lord, any of soul so great, and cleaving to Thee with so intense affection (for a sort of stupidity will in a way do it); but is there any one who, from cleaving devoutly to Thee, is endued "}, {"id": "card_n_592b275b3694", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_021: Whence is this monstrousness?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence is this monstrousness? and to what end? Let Thy mercy gleam that I may ask, if so be the secret penalties of men, and those darkest pangs of the sons of Adam, may perhaps answer me. 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And yet when dare I say, since so "}, {"id": "card_n_552c2965c6bb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_016: So in acts of violence, where there is a wish to hurt, whether by reproach or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "So in acts of violence, where there is a wish to hurt, whether by reproach or injury; and these either for revenge, as one enemy against another; or for some profit belonging to another, as the robber"}, {"id": "card_n_f34b7ca6db45", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_045: But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them. Therefore when they see that these things are good, Thou seest that they are good; and whatsoever things for Thy sake please, Thou plea"}, {"id": "card_n_4c8abd61944b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_051: There remains the pleasure of these eyes of my flesh, on which to make my con...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There remains the pleasure of these eyes of my flesh, on which to make my confessions in the hearing of the ears of Thy temple, those brotherly and devout ears; and so to conclude the temptations of t"}]}