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And why then should I be ang"}, {"id": "card_n_a6ba31737818", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxviii: Remember, that that which sets a man at work, and hath power over the affecti...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Remember, that that which sets a man at work, and hath power over the affections to draw them either one way, or the other way, is not any external thing properly, but that which is hidden within ever"}, {"id": "card_n_beed2fb14aaf", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xlvii: Keep thyself to the first bare and naked apprehensions of things, as they pre...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Keep thyself to the first bare and naked apprehensions of things, as they present themselves unto thee, and add not unto them. It is reported unto thee, that such a one speaketh ill of thee. 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Let this then be thy first ground, that thou art part of that universe, which is "}, {"id": "card_n_dbdedfebf776", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_xvii: To be capable of fancies and imaginations, is common to man and beast.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To be capable of fancies and imaginations, is common to man and beast. To be violently drawn and moved by the lusts and desires of the soul, is proper to wild beasts and monsters, such as Phalaris and"}, {"id": "card_n_31e72955f394", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxvii: Ever to mind and consider with thyself; how all things that now are, have bee...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ever to mind and consider with thyself; how all things that now are, have been heretofore much after the same sort, and after the same fashion that now they are: and so to think of those things which "}, {"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. 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To be thus affected she must consider all worldly obj"}, {"id": "card_n_03faa6ae44bf", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xix: Cast away from thee opinion, and thou art safe.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cast away from thee opinion, and thou art safe. And what is it that hinders thee from casting of it away? 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For the nature of the universe, having made all reasonable creatures one for another, to the end that they should do one another good; more or less according to the"}, {"id": "card_n_15bc196ee012", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xii: What those things are in themselves, which by the greatest part are esteemed ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What those things are in themselves, which by the greatest part are esteemed good, thou mayest gather even from this. For if a man shall hear things mentioned as good, which are really good indeed, su"}, {"id": "card_n_b509cc1133fe", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_lii: Not only now henceforth to have a common breath, or to hold correspondency of...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Not only now henceforth to have a common breath, or to hold correspondency of breath, with that air, that compasseth us about; but to have a common mind, or to hold correspondency of mind also with th"}, {"id": "card_n_5e2de3800715", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §275: CHR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "CHR. It is a thing to be wondered at, and it argueth that their hearts are grown desperate in the case; and I cannot tell who to compare them to so fitly, as to them that pick pockets in the presence "}]}