{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_vii: If thou shalt find anythi", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f714d80cbfb6", "title": "Barnabas XIX", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The way of light, then, is as follows. If any one desires to travel to the appointed place, he must be zealous in his works. The knowledge, therefore, which is given to us for the purpose of walking i"}, {"id": "card_n_37d4c45358d6", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_vii: If thou shalt find anything in this mortal life better than righteousness, th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If thou shalt find anything in this mortal life better than righteousness, than truth, temperance, fortitude, and in general better than a mind contented both with those things which according to righ"}, {"id": "card_n_e740b2b5beb6", "title": "Didache 4", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "My child, him that speaks to thee the word of God remember night and day, and thou shalt honor him as the Lord; for where that which pertaineth to the Lord is spoken there the Lord is. 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Lord, what Thou sayest is"}, {"id": "card_n_28cb94cee1c8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_i: Whatsoever thou doest hereafter aspire unto, thou mayest even now enjoy and p...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever thou doest hereafter aspire unto, thou mayest even now enjoy and possess, if thou doest not envy thyself thine own happiness. 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Thou wilt one day be sensible of their happiness, whose end"}, {"id": "card_n_da89221a6885", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_ii: A pleasant song or dance; the Pancratiast's exercise, sports that thou art wo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pleasant song or dance; the Pancratiast's exercise, sports that thou art wont to be much taken with, thou shalt easily contemn; if the harmonious voice thou shalt divide into so many particular soun"}, {"id": "card_n_fa7a5908e428", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_i: This also, among other things, may serve to keep thee from vainglory; if thou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This also, among other things, may serve to keep thee from vainglory; if thou shalt consider, that thou art now altogether incapable of the commendation of one, who all his life long, or from his yout"}, {"id": "card_n_1d4447f04d11", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_x: As several members in one body united, so are reasonable creatures in a body ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As several members in one body united, so are reasonable creatures in a body divided and dispersed, all made and prepared for one common operation. 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For more grace shall be added to thee, as soon as thou resignes"}, {"id": "card_n_debba0d71d75", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxx: When thou art offended with any man's transgression, presently reflect upon t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When thou art offended with any man's transgression, presently reflect upon thyself; and consider what thou thyself art guilty of in the same kind. As that thou also perchance dost think it a happines"}, {"id": "card_n_5e584ad5b1d7", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxi: When thou seest Satyro, think of Socraticus and Eutyches, or Hymen, and when ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When thou seest Satyro, think of Socraticus and Eutyches, or Hymen, and when Euphrates, think of Eutychio, and Sylvanus, when Alciphron, of Tropaeophorus, when Xenophon, of Crito, or Severus. And when"}, {"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_14ce90444d15", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_25: Be thou watchful and diligent in God’s service, and bethink thee often why th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Be thou watchful and diligent in God’s service, and bethink thee often why thou hast renounced the world. Was it not that thou mightest live to God and become a spiritual man? Be zealous, therefore, f"}, {"id": "card_n_10f4dc63d265", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_27: “My Son, thou must give all for all, and be nothing of thine own.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, thou must give all for all, and be nothing of thine own. Know thou that the love of thyself is more hurtful to thee than anything in the world. According to the love and inclination which tho"}, {"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_6424c4ab4e20", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xii: As a part hitherto thou hast had a particular subsistence: and now shalt thou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As a part hitherto thou hast had a particular subsistence: and now shalt thou vanish away into the common substance of Him, who first begot thee, or rather thou shalt be resumed again into that origin"}]}