{"query": "Pirkei Avot §avot_06_05: Do not seek greatness for yourself,", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_b1aa5d07d03c", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_06_05: Do not seek greatness for yourself, and do not covet honor.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Do not seek greatness for yourself, and do not covet honor. Practice more than you learn. Do not yearn for the table of kings, for your table is greater than their table, and your crown is greater tha"}, {"id": "card_n_cb687395e364", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_02_04: He used to say: do His will as though it were your will, so that He will do y...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He used to say: do His will as though it were your will, so that He will do your will as though it were His. 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For when I seek Thee, my God, I seek a happy life. I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul; and my soul by Thee. How then do I seek a ha"}, {"id": "card_n_a3ffd0a488fd", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_05_17: Every dispute that is for the sake of Heaven, will in the end endure; But one...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Every dispute that is for the sake of Heaven, will in the end endure; But one that is not for the sake of Heaven, will not endure. Which is the controversy that is for the sake of Heaven? 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