{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_x: These two rules, thou must", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_b6ee280f4a40", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_x: These two rules, thou must have always in a readiness.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "These two rules, thou must have always in a readiness. First, do nothing at all, but what reason proceeding from that regal and supreme part, shall for the good and benefit of men, suggest unto thee. "}, {"id": "card_n_82320d6d17c8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_ii: As one who is altogether governed by nature, let it be thy care to observe wh...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As one who is altogether governed by nature, let it be thy care to observe what it is that thy nature in general doth require. That done, if thou find not that thy nature, as thou art a living sensibl"}, {"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_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. 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Certainly it is"}, {"id": "card_n_7202144a3e23", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xxvii: In matter of writing or reading thou must needs be taught before thou can do ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In matter of writing or reading thou must needs be taught before thou can do either: much more in matter of life. 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