{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xxxviii: If thou canst but wit", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_9616e041162d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xxxviii: If thou canst but withdraw conceit and opinion concerning that which may seem...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If thou canst but withdraw conceit and opinion concerning that which may seem hurtful and offensive, thou thyself art as safe, as safe may be. Thou thyself? and who is that? Thy reason. 'Yea, but I am"}, {"id": "card_n_db9e04710313", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_56: My Son, so far as thou art able to go out of thyself so far shalt thou be abl...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "My Son, so far as thou art able to go out of thyself so far shalt thou be able to enter into Me. 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