{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_021: But what moved me,", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_a31688f13822", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_062: Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praise...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praises, for my own sake, but for the good of my neighbour. And whether it be so with me, I know not. For herein I know less of m"}, {"id": "card_n_748866deee50", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_021: But what moved me, O Lord my God, to dedicate these books unto Hierius, an or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what moved me, O Lord my God, to dedicate these books unto Hierius, an orator of Rome, whom I knew not by face, but loved for the fame of his learning which was eminent in him, and some words of h"}, {"id": "card_n_ec1e106a8311", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_002: Stage-plays also carried me away, full of images of my miseries, and of fuel ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Stage-plays also carried me away, full of images of my miseries, and of fuel to my fire. Why is it, that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would no m"}, {"id": "card_n_d1a719fd2d81", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_020: Whence was this also, that when she had told me this vision, and I would fain...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence was this also, that when she had told me this vision, and I would fain bend it to mean, \"That she rather should not despair of being one day what I was\"; she presently, without any hesitation, "}, {"id": "card_n_592b275b3694", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_021: Whence is this monstrousness?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence is this monstrousness? and to what end? Let Thy mercy gleam that I may ask, if so be the secret penalties of men, and those darkest pangs of the sons of Adam, may perhaps answer me. Whence is t"}, {"id": "card_n_2f9f80668791", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_007: Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy, me, dust and ashes.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy, me, dust and ashes. Yet suffer me to speak, since I speak to Thy mercy, and not to scornful man. Thou too, perhaps, despisest me, yet wilt Thou return and have c"}, {"id": "card_n_5f4cbdf547c1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_019: In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved not study, and hated to be forced to it. Yet I was forced; and this was well done towards me, but I did not well; for, unle"}, {"id": "card_n_d8df57262ee0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_033: Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I say: for if he should ask me, \"How know you that Moses thought that which you infer out of his words?\" I ought to take it i"}, {"id": "card_n_8d4362c182ce", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_005: But for what fruit would they hear this?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But for what fruit would they hear this? Do they desire to joy with me, when they hear how near, by Thy gift, I approach unto Thee? and to pray for me, when they shall hear how much I am held back by "}, {"id": "card_n_934645b2b6b4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_004: But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by doing it. For the confessions of my past sins, which Thou hast forgiven and covered, that Thou mightest bless me in Thee, "}, {"id": "card_n_0a05e3e07adf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_005: Oh!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, and inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good! What art Thou to me? In Thy pity, teach me to "}, {"id": "card_n_8087d5daa7d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_003: What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if they could heal all my infirmities--a race, curious to know the lives of others, slothful to amend their own? Why seek they"}, {"id": "card_n_e8b47f718fb7", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_015: But why I went hence, and went thither, Thou knewest, O God, yet showedst it ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But why I went hence, and went thither, Thou knewest, O God, yet showedst it neither to me, nor to my mother, who grievously bewailed my journey, and followed me as far as the sea. But I deceived her,"}, {"id": "card_n_1f48bfb3616e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_061: What then do I confess unto Thee in this kind of temptation, O Lord?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then do I confess unto Thee in this kind of temptation, O Lord? What, but that I am delighted with praise, but with truth itself, more than with praise? 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