{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xi: Of things that are externa", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_329e521d766b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxiii: Asia, Europe; what are they, but as corners of the whole world; of which the ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Asia, Europe; what are they, but as corners of the whole world; of which the whole sea, is but as one drop; and the great Mount Athos, but as a clod, as all present time is but as one point of eternit"}, {"id": "card_n_4a192cae2d55", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xiii: Those things which the common sort of people do admire, are most of them such...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Those things which the common sort of people do admire, are most of them such things as are very general, and may be comprehended under things merely natural, or naturally affected and qualified: as s"}, {"id": "card_n_62f1b69b1f00", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xviii: These three things thou must have always in a readiness: first concerning thi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "These three things thou must have always in a readiness: first concerning thine own actions, whether thou doest nothing either idly, or otherwise, than justice and equity do require: and concerning th"}, {"id": "card_n_f5a60add9b3d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xi: Of things that are external, happen what will to that which can suffer by ext...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of things that are external, happen what will to that which can suffer by external accidents. Those things that suffer let them complain themselves, if they will; as for me, as long as I conceive no s"}, {"id": "card_n_f5aba15934d9", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xxx: Look not about upon other men's minds and understandings; but look right on f...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Look not about upon other men's minds and understandings; but look right on forwards whither nature, both that of the universe, in those things that happen unto thee; and thine in particular, in those"}, {"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? When thou art grieved at anything, hast thou forgotten that all things happen according to the"}, {"id": "card_n_a6e5e4847a8c", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §186: FAITH.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "FAITH. Come on, then, and let us go together, and let us spend our time in discoursing of things that are profitable. Talkative's dislike of bad discourse TALK. To talk of things that are good, to me "}, {"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. But were it so, that all anger and passion were so thoroughly quenched "}, {"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_da9eb15a438a", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xxii: All things (saith he) are by certain order and appointment.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "All things (saith he) are by certain order and appointment. And what if the elements only. It will suffice to remember, that all things in general are by certain order and appointment: or if it be but"}, {"id": "card_n_f34b7ca6db45", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_045: But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them. Therefore when they see that these things are good, Thou seest that they are good; and whatsoever things for Thy sake please, Thou plea"}, {"id": "card_n_e22d2aa57c61", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_xii: If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands of years, y...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands of years, yet remember this, that man can part with no life properly, save with that little part of life, which he now lives: and that"}, {"id": "card_n_0694dc4725b3", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_vii: All parts of the world, (all things I mean that are contained within the whol...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "All parts of the world, (all things I mean that are contained within the whole world), must of necessity at some time or other come to corruption. Alteration I should say, to speak truly and properly;"}, {"id": "card_n_05b8128f5115", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_vi: Let not things future trouble thee.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let not things future trouble thee. For if necessity so require that they come to pass, thou shalt (whensoever that is) be provided for them with the same reason, by which whatsoever is now present, i"}, {"id": "card_n_ae8ff8180ae8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_v: Tragedies were at first brought in and instituted, to put men in mind of worl...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Tragedies were at first brought in and instituted, to put men in mind of worldly chances and casualties: that these things in the ordinary course of nature did so happen: that men that were much pleas"}, {"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_54aba1d3c8cb", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_vi: Either with Epicurus, we must fondly imagine the atoms to be the cause of all...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Either with Epicurus, we must fondly imagine the atoms to be the cause of all things, or we must needs grant a nature. Let this then be thy first ground, that thou art part of that universe, which is "}, {"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. Well; tha"}, {"id": "card_n_03d674037e29", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_ii: This also thou must observe, that whatsoever it is that naturally doth happen...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This also thou must observe, that whatsoever it is that naturally doth happen to things natural, hath somewhat in itself that is pleasing and delightful: as a great loaf when it is baked, some parts o"}]}