{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_065: There is no praise we have not", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c44ad4a9d8ff", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_065: There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot ass...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. [The author corrected this maxim several times, in 1665 it is No. 75; 1666, No. 66; 1671"}, {"id": "card_c_e60db4da7368", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_065: There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot ass... references No", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions No (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_438802f29aca", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_144: We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as th"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_135_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 135:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 135:1 — Here is, 1. The duty we are called to - to praise the Lord, to praise his name; praise him, and again praise him. We must not only thank him for what he has done for us, but praise h"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_71_14", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 71:14", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 71:14 — David is here in a holy transport of joy and praise, arising from his faith and hope in God; we have both together Psa 71:14, where there is a sudden and remarkable change of his voi"}, {"id": "card_n_4025b1b3744f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_003: And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not what depth of abyss, upon which there was no light, because it had no shape. Therefore didst Thou command it to be written, "}, {"id": "card_n_1e7b3d5641cb", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_320: To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them wit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them with impunity. [\"Praise undeserved is satire in disguise,\" quoted by Pope from a poem which has not survived, \"The Garland,\" b"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_30_7", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:7", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 30:7 — After Agur's confession and creed, here follows his litany, where we may observe,\nI. The preface to his prayer: Two things have I required (that is, requested) of thee, O God! Befor"}, {"id": "card_n_fad45147b052", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_073: We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is rare to f...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is rare to find those who have intrigued but once. [\"Yet there are some, they say, who have had None}; But those who have, ne'er end wi"}, {"id": "card_n_3adfef56e993", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_174: It is far better to accustom our mind to bear the ills we have than to specul...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is far better to accustom our mind to bear the ills we have than to speculate on those which may befall us. [\"Rather bear th{ose} ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of.\" {--Shakespear"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_47_5", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 47:5", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 47:5 — We are here most earnestly pressed to praise God, and to sing his praises; so backward are we to this duty that we have need to be urged to it by precept upon precept, and line upon l"}, {"id": "card_n_ff2f198d1c2d", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_399: There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune: it is a cert...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune: it is a certain manner what distinguishes us, and which seems to destine us for great things; it is the value we insensibly set upon ou"}, {"id": "card_n_8fcb53d51da5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_027: I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to say, this time is twice so much as that one; or, this is just so much as that; and so of any other parts of time, which be m"}, {"id": "card_n_023fb5a29c5f", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_068: It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love--Plus"}, {"id": "card_n_8ad177db0311", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_233: In afflictions there are various kinds of hypocrisy.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In afflictions there are various kinds of hypocrisy. In one, under the pretext of weeping for one dear to us we bemoan ourselves; we regret her good opinion of us, we deplore the loss of our comfort, "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_103_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 103:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 103:1 — David is here communing with his own heart, and he is no fool that thus talks to himself and excites his own soul to that which is good. Observe,\nI. How he stirs up himself to the du"}, {"id": "card_n_998c0b71e1ea", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_245: There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability. [\"You have accomplished a great stroke in diplomacy when you have made others think that you have only very average abilities.\"--La Bruy"}, {"id": "card_n_0fca87115642", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_13: So long as we live in the world, we cannot be without trouble and trial.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "So long as we live in the world, we cannot be without trouble and trial. Wherefore it is written in Job, The life of man upon the earth is a trial.(1) And therefore ought each of us to give heed conce"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_115_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 115:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 115:1 — Sufficient care is here taken to answer both the pretensions of self and the reproaches of idolaters.\nI. Boasting is here for ever excluded, Psa 115:1. Let no opinion of our own meri"}, {"id": "card_n_4b1d93f34d6a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_076: There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it. [\"Oh Love! no habitant of earth thou art-- An unseen seraph, we believe in thee-- A faith whose m"}]}