{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_vi: These things thou must alw", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_62f1b69b1f00", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xviii: These three things thou must have always in a readiness: first concerning thi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "These three things thou must have always in a readiness: first concerning thine own actions, whether thou doest nothing either idly, or otherwise, than justice and equity do require: and concerning th"}, {"id": "card_n_f798a6cbec5d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_vi: These things thou must always have in mind: What is the nature of the univers...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "These things thou must always have in mind: What is the nature of the universe, and what is mine--in particular: This unto that what relation it hath: what kind of part, of what kind of universe it is"}, {"id": "card_n_4d5df2f92c5b", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_17: “My Son, suffer me to do with thee what I will; I know what is expedient for ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, suffer me to do with thee what I will; I know what is expedient for thee. Thou thinkest as a man, in many things thou judgest as human affection persuadeth thee.” 2. Lord, what Thou sayest is"}, {"id": "card_n_7a843a5664d6", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_xiv: As physicians and chirurgeons have always their instruments ready at hand for...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As physicians and chirurgeons have always their instruments ready at hand for all sudden cures; so have thou always thy dogmata in a readiness for the knowledge of things, both divine and human: and w"}, {"id": "card_n_760a5ee9de1a", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xl: Either the Gods can do nothing for us at all, or they can still and allay all...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Either the Gods can do nothing for us at all, or they can still and allay all the distractions and distempers of thy mind. If they can do nothing, why doest thou pray? If they can, why wouldst not tho"}, {"id": "card_n_71c200f80327", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxvi: What things soever are not within the proper power and jurisdiction of thine ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What things soever are not within the proper power and jurisdiction of thine own will either to compass or avoid, if thou shalt propose unto thyself any of those things as either good, or evil; it mus"}, {"id": "card_n_d3b00b21a58c", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_i: In the morning when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise, consider with thy...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the morning when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise, consider with thyself presently, it is to go about a man's work that I am stirred up. Am I then yet unwilling to go about that, for which I "}, {"id": "card_n_19f7ca0e558b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xxix: If this neither be my wicked act, nor an act anyways depending from any wicke...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If this neither be my wicked act, nor an act anyways depending from any wickedness of mine, and that by it the public is not hurt; what doth it concern me? And wherein can the public be hurt? For thou"}, {"id": "card_n_9fec8e39d338", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_ii: God beholds our minds and understandings, bare and naked from these material ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God beholds our minds and understandings, bare and naked from these material vessels, and outsides, and all earthly dross. For with His simple and pure understanding, He pierceth into our inmost and p"}, {"id": "card_n_8b107410efcc", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xviii: An angry countenance is much against nature, and it is oftentimes the proper ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An angry countenance is much against nature, and it is oftentimes the proper countenance of them that are at the point of death. But were it so, that all anger and passion were so thoroughly quenched "}, {"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. It is high time for thee to un"}, {"id": "card_n_0db8198812b2", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_vi: Such and such things, from such and such causes, must of necessity proceed.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Such and such things, from such and such causes, must of necessity proceed. He that would not have such things to happen, is as he that would have the fig-tree grow without any sap or moisture. In sum"}, {"id": "card_n_4286f873943b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxiii: Either thou dost Continue in this kind of life and that is it, which so long ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Either thou dost Continue in this kind of life and that is it, which so long thou hast been used unto and therefore tolerable: or thou doest retire, or leave the world, and that of thine own accord, a"}, {"id": "card_n_6fc581b1aa11", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xliv: Dost thou grieve that thou dost weigh but so many pounds, and not three hundr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dost thou grieve that thou dost weigh but so many pounds, and not three hundred rather? Just as much reason hast thou to grieve that thou must live but so many years, and not longer. For as for bulk a"}, {"id": "card_n_5082973e235c", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xxv: How hast thou carried thyself hitherto towards the Gods?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "How hast thou carried thyself hitherto towards the Gods? towards thy parents? towards thy brethren? towards thy wife? towards thy children? towards thy masters? thy foster-fathers? thy friends? thy do"}, {"id": "card_n_54aba1d3c8cb", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_vi: Either with Epicurus, we must fondly imagine the atoms to be the cause of all...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Either with Epicurus, we must fondly imagine the atoms to be the cause of all things, or we must needs grant a nature. Let this then be thy first ground, that thou art part of that universe, which is "}, {"id": "card_c_04de61eeaefb", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_v: Tra → Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_vi: Su", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential next in aurelius_meditations."}, {"id": "card_c_0a0ea0268d38", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_liii:  → Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_vi: Le", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential next in aurelius_meditations."}, {"id": "card_c_0b07dc0eb622", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_vi: Su → Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xvii: ", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential prev in aurelius_meditations."}, {"id": "card_c_10516dc86e11", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_vi: Su → Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_v: Tra", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential prev in aurelius_meditations."}]}