{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xvi: Give what thou wilt, and", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_45bd5fec5c50", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xvi: Give what thou wilt, and take away what thou wilt, saith he that is well taug...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Give what thou wilt, and take away what thou wilt, saith he that is well taught and truly modest, to Him that gives, and takes away. And it is not out of a stout and peremptory resolution, that he sai"}, {"id": "card_n_4d5df2f92c5b", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_17: “My Son, suffer me to do with thee what I will; I know what is expedient for ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, suffer me to do with thee what I will; I know what is expedient for thee. Thou thinkest as a man, in many things thou judgest as human affection persuadeth thee.” 2. Lord, what Thou sayest is"}, {"id": "card_n_4286f873943b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxiii: Either thou dost Continue in this kind of life and that is it, which so long ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Either thou dost Continue in this kind of life and that is it, which so long thou hast been used unto and therefore tolerable: or thou doest retire, or leave the world, and that of thine own accord, a"}, {"id": "card_n_c595fef82737", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_iv: Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good, when by it thou art hindered from some other better work. 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If they can, why wouldst not tho"}, {"id": "card_n_5abb02247e30", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xxviii: Thou mayest always speed, if thou wilt but make choice of the right way; if i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Thou mayest always speed, if thou wilt but make choice of the right way; if in the course both of thine opinions and actions, thou wilt observe a true method. These two things be common to the souls, "}, {"id": "card_n_31a0e63a36d5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_040: And all my hope is no where but in Thy exceeding great mercy.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And all my hope is no where but in Thy exceeding great mercy. Give what Thou enjoinest, and enjoin what Thou wilt. Thou enjoinest us continency; and when I knew, saith one, that no man can be continen"}, {"id": "card_n_9833bb6df123", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xiii: What use is there of suspicion at all?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What use is there of suspicion at all? or, why should thoughts of mistrust, and suspicion concerning that which is future, trouble thy mind at all? What now is to be done, if thou mayest search and in"}, {"id": "card_n_f798a6cbec5d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_vi: These things thou must always have in mind: What is the nature of the univers...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "These things thou must always have in mind: What is the nature of the universe, and what is mine--in particular: This unto that what relation it hath: what kind of part, of what kind of universe it is"}, {"id": "card_n_af6057f6df9d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxvii: We all work to one effect, some willingly, and with a rational apprehension o...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We all work to one effect, some willingly, and with a rational apprehension of what we do: others without any such knowledge. As I think Heraclitus in a place speaketh of them that sleep, that even th"}, {"id": "card_n_7e7900821c44", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_li: He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is. And he that knoweth not what the world was made for, cannot possibly know either what are the qualities, or what is the nature o"}]}