{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_i: Whatsoever thou doest herea", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_28cb94cee1c8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_i: Whatsoever thou doest hereafter aspire unto, thou mayest even now enjoy and p...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever thou doest hereafter aspire unto, thou mayest even now enjoy and possess, if thou doest not envy thyself thine own happiness. And that will be, if thou shalt forget all that is past, and fo"}, {"id": "card_n_3edc60b0df26", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_iii: Whatsoever doth happen unto thee, thou art naturally by thy natural constitut...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever doth happen unto thee, thou art naturally by thy natural constitution either able, or not able to bear. 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Wouldst thou long be able to talk,"}, {"id": "card_n_9fec8e39d338", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_ii: God beholds our minds and understandings, bare and naked from these material ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God beholds our minds and understandings, bare and naked from these material vessels, and outsides, and all earthly dross. For with His simple and pure understanding, He pierceth into our inmost and p"}, {"id": "card_n_4c7d3d5831df", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xlv: Nothing can happen unto thee, which is not incidental unto thee, as thou art ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Nothing can happen unto thee, which is not incidental unto thee, as thou art a man. 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Am I then yet unwilling to go about that, for which I "}, {"id": "card_n_0b125c2420a7", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_xvii: Four several dispositions or inclinations there be of the mind and understand...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Four several dispositions or inclinations there be of the mind and understanding, which to be aware of, thou must carefully observe: and whensoever thou doest discover them, thou must rectify them, sa"}, {"id": "card_n_82320d6d17c8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_ii: As one who is altogether governed by nature, let it be thy care to observe wh...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As one who is altogether governed by nature, let it be thy care to observe what it is that thy nature in general doth require. 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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_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_da89221a6885", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_ii: A pleasant song or dance; the Pancratiast's exercise, sports that thou art wo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pleasant song or dance; the Pancratiast's exercise, sports that thou art wont to be much taken with, thou shalt easily contemn; if the harmonious voice thou shalt divide into so many particular soun"}]}