{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xiv: Some things hasten to be,", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f82d494fdc5d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xiv: Some things hasten to be, and others to be no more.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Some things hasten to be, and others to be no more. And even whatsoever now is, some part thereof hath already perished. Perpetual fluxes and alterations renew the world, as the perpetual course of ti"}, {"id": "card_n_84ec58918e58", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxvii: Consider in my mind, for example's sake, the times of Vespasian: thou shalt s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consider in my mind, for example's sake, the times of Vespasian: thou shalt see but the same things: some marrying, some bringing up children, some sick, some dying, some fighting, some feasting, some"}, {"id": "card_n_b71505ae2c02", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xii: From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power of myself, an...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power of myself, and in nothing to be carried about; to be cheerful and courageous in all sudden chances and accidents, as in sicknesses: to l"}, {"id": "card_n_8363b9e09e26", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_v: No man can admire thee for thy sharp acute language, such is thy natural disa...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "No man can admire thee for thy sharp acute language, such is thy natural disability that way. Be it so: yet there be many other good things, for the want of which thou canst not plead the want or natu"}, {"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_4b82058d5759", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxv: A good eye must be good to see whatsoever is to be seen, and not green things...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A good eye must be good to see whatsoever is to be seen, and not green things only. For that is proper to sore eyes. So must a good ear, and a good smell be ready for whatsoever is either to be heard,"}, {"id": "card_n_2f98a5c4f9d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_026: What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are. Nor is it properly said, \"there be three times, past, present, and to come\": yet perchance it might be properly said, \"there b"}, {"id": "card_n_2fe7dc5d2d51", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_xvi: To steal, to sow, to buy, to be at rest, to see what is to be done (which is ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To steal, to sow, to buy, to be at rest, to see what is to be done (which is not seen by the eyes, but by another kind of sight:) what these words mean, and how many ways to be understood, they do not"}, {"id": "card_n_176a23fcdf47", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxix: From some high place as it were to look down, and to behold here flocks, and ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From some high place as it were to look down, and to behold here flocks, and there sacrifices, without number; and all kind of navigation; some in a rough and stormy sea, and some in a calm: the gener"}, {"id": "card_n_30021befc8c0", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xvi: To desire things impossible is the part of a mad man.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To desire things impossible is the part of a mad man. But it is a thing impossible, that wicked man should not commit some such things. Neither doth anything happen to any man, which in the ordinary c"}, {"id": "card_n_90d757cb165e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_ix: Be not discontented, be not disheartened, be not out of hope, if often it suc...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Be not discontented, be not disheartened, be not out of hope, if often it succeed not so well with thee punctually and precisely to do all things according to the right dogmata, but being once cast of"}, {"id": "card_n_cac9863fdd9d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_iv: If to understand and to be reasonable be common unto all men, then is that re...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If to understand and to be reasonable be common unto all men, then is that reason, for which we are termed reasonable, common unto all. 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