{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_i: Remember how long thou hast", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6bb16fd7451c", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_i: Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how often a cer...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how often a certain day and hour as it were, having been set unto thee by the gods, thou hast neglected it. 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What are they, Lord? 3. “To place thy desire altogether in subjection to My good pleasure, and not to be a love"}, {"id": "card_n_5a7abceb59ea", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xix: Whensoever any man doth trespass against other, presently consider with thyse...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whensoever any man doth trespass against other, presently consider with thyself what it was that he did suppose to be good, what to be evil, when he did trespass. For this when thou knowest, thou wilt"}, {"id": "card_n_6bcb2e71c089", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxxix: Let it be thy perpetual meditation, how many physicians who once looked so gr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let it be thy perpetual meditation, how many physicians who once looked so grim, and so theatrically shrunk their brows upon their patients, are dead and gone themselves. 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