{"query": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_ii: Let it be thy earnest and", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_26c172d96279", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_ii: Let it be thy earnest and incessant care as a Roman and a man to perform what...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let it be thy earnest and incessant care as a Roman and a man to perform whatsoever it is that thou art about, with true and unfeigned gravity, natural affection, freedom and justice: and as for all o"}, {"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. 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They that shall oppose thee in thy right courses, as it is not in their power to di"}, {"id": "card_n_040560953580", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_iv: how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and so lovingly, should be overseen in this one only thing, that whereas then hath been some very good men that have made many"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_ezekiel_3_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 3:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Ezekiel 3:1 — These verses are fitly joined by some translators to the foregoing chapter, as being of a piece with it and a continuation of the same vision. 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