{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_xiii: If thou shalt intend tha", "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_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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And that will be, if thou shalt forget all that is past, and fo"}, {"id": "card_n_4a552cb56f0b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_i: O my soul, the time I trust will be, when thou shalt be good, simple, single,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "O my soul, the time I trust will be, when thou shalt be good, simple, single, more open and visible, than that body by which it is enclosed. 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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According to the love and inclination which tho"}, {"id": "card_n_9833bb6df123", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xiii: What use is there of suspicion at all?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What use is there of suspicion at all? or, why should thoughts of mistrust, and suspicion concerning that which is future, trouble thy mind at all? What now is to be done, if thou mayest search and in"}, {"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? 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