{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_021: Those who are condemned to dea", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_576a24430f03", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_021: Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt fo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what th"}, {"id": "card_n_780d61508626", "title": "Barnabas XX", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But the way of darkness is crooked, and full of cursing; for it is the way of eternal death with punishment, in which way are the things that destroy the soul, viz. idolatry, over-confidence, the arro"}, {"id": "card_n_0121cd019ad8", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_014: Men are not only prone to forget benefits and injuries; they even hate those ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Men are not only prone to forget benefits and injuries; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. 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[\"Yet there are some, they say, who have had None}; But those who have, ne'er end wi"}, {"id": "card_n_64d4d7258e38", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_085: We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we exp"}, {"id": "card_n_0f99b4ab54e9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_119: We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves. [\"Those who quit their proper character{,} to assume what does not belong to them, are{,} for the gr"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_125_4", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 125:4", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 125:4 — Here is, 1. The prayer the psalmist puts up for the happiness of those that are sincere and constant (Psa 125:4): Do good, O Lord! unto those that are good. This teaches us to pray f"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_112_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 112:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 112:1 — The psalmist begins with a call to us to praise God, but immediately applies himself to praise the people of God; for whatever glory is acknowledged to be on them it comes from God, "}, {"id": "card_n_caddee6331e4", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_139: One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conv...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conversation is there is hardly a person who does not think more of what he wants to say than of his answer to what is said. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_5f947135be65", "title": "Romans 8", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.\n2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus mad"}, {"id": "card_n_e813ad395000", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_016: This clemency of which they make a merit, arises oftentimes from vanity, some...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This clemency of which they make a merit, arises oftentimes from vanity, sometimes from idleness, oftentimes from fear, and almost always from all three combined. [La Rochefoucauld is content to paint"}, {"id": "card_n_540aced688be", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_082: Reconciliation with our enemies is but a desire to better our condition, a we...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reconciliation with our enemies is but a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, the fear of some unlucky accident. [\"Thus terminated that famous war of the Fronde. The Duke de la Rochefou"}, {"id": "card_n_20a9445137c0", "title": "Revelation 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,\n2. who testifie"}, {"id": "card_n_ed195bbfc4a9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_092: To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a tur...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him. ["}, {"id": "card_n_67edf09d8870", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_447: Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed. [Honour has its supreme laws, to which education is bound to conform....Those things which honour forbids are more rigorously forbidden when th"}, {"id": "card_n_26fd7b06fd21", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_142: As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing. [\"So much they talked, so very little said.\" Churchill, Rosciad, 550"}, {"id": "card_n_700f987e94ad", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_350: Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they thin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are. 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