{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xlix: Not to be slack and negl", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f0839d475b65", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xlix: Not to be slack and negligent; or loose, and wanton in thy actions; nor conte...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Not to be slack and negligent; or loose, and wanton in thy actions; nor contentious, and troublesome in thy conversation; nor to rove and wander in thy fancies and imaginations. 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He it was also that did"}, {"id": "card_n_2f888cd55912", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_iii: Of Diognetus, not to busy myself about vain things, and not easily to believe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of Diognetus, not to busy myself about vain things, and not easily to believe those things, which are commonly spoken, by such as take upon them to work wonders, and by sorcerers, or prestidigitators,"}, {"id": "card_n_1baad119b096", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_v: From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not to regar...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not to regard anything at all, though never so little, but right and reason: and always, whether in the sharpest pains, or after the lo"}, {"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_3a54cb34e7f8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_xi: To these ever-present helps and mementoes, let one more be added, ever to mak...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To these ever-present helps and mementoes, let one more be added, ever to make a particular description and delineation as it were of every object that presents itself to thy mind, that thou mayest wh"}, {"id": "card_n_b154240256de", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_iv: To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit that my lif...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit that my life wanted some redress and cure. And then, that I did not fall into the ambition of ordinary sophists, either to write tract"}, {"id": "card_n_70303fecaefc", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xii: Will any contemn me?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Will any contemn me? let him look to that, upon what grounds he does it: my care shall be that I may never be found either doing or speaking anything that doth truly deserve contempt. Will any hate me"}, {"id": "card_n_8b908643528e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xix: He that hath not one and the self-same general end always as long as he livet...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He that hath not one and the self-same general end always as long as he liveth, cannot possibly be one and the self-same man always. 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So must a good ear, and a good smell be ready for whatsoever is either to be heard,"}, {"id": "card_n_982b9ffe05f0", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xv: Not vegetative spiration, it is not surely (which plants have) that in this l...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Not vegetative spiration, it is not surely (which plants have) that in this life should be so dear unto us; nor sensitive respiration, the proper life of beasts, both tame and wild; nor this our imagi"}, {"id": "card_n_040560953580", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_iv: how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and so lovingly, should be overseen in this one only thing, that whereas then hath been some very good men that have made many"}]}