{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_068: It is difficult to define love", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_c_e3f43d99ddbc", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_068: It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a d... references Love", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Love (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_john_4_7", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 John 4:7", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 John 4:7 — As the Spirit of truth is known by doctrine (thus spirits are to be tried), it is known by love likewise; and so here follows a strong fervent exhortation to holy Christian love: Belov"}, {"id": "card_c_f3944fbd8f6d", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_068: It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a d... references Chapter", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Chapter (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_816de080dbe3", "title": "1 Clement XLIX", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let him who has love in Christ keep the commandments of Christ. Who can describe the [blessed] bond of the love of God? What man is able to tell the excellence of its beauty, as it ought to be told? T"}, {"id": "card_n_c5fe1c6ef7ed", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_471: In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love l...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love. [\"In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all her others what she loves is love.\" {--Lord Byron, }Don Juan, Can"}, {"id": "card_n_fde9cbbe5cd4", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_490: We often go from love to ambition, but we never return from ambition to love.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We often go from love to ambition, but we never return from ambition to love. [\"Men commence by love, finish by ambition, and do not find a quieter seat while they remain there.\"--La Bruyere: Du Coeur"}, {"id": "card_n_b1a8b04f2484", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_175: Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which causes our heart to attach...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which causes our heart to attach itself to all the qualities of the person we love in succession, sometimes giving the preference to one, sometimes to anot"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g26", "title": "G26 — ἀγάπη (agapē): love", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "ἀγάπη (agapē), Strong's G26: love. ἀγάπη , -ης, ἡ [in LXX for אַהֲבָה, which is also rendered by ἀγάπησις and φιλία ;] love, goodwill, esteem . Outside of bibl. and eccl. books, there is no clear inst"}, {"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_56af95e219fe", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_440: The cause why the majority of women are so little given to friendship is, tha...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The cause why the majority of women are so little given to friendship is, that it is insipid after having felt love. [\"Those who have experienced a great passion neglect friendship, and those who have"}, {"id": "card_n_7c726252881a", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_09: It is no hard thing to despise human comfort when divine is present.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is no hard thing to despise human comfort when divine is present. It is a great thing, yea very great, to be able to bear the loss both of human and divine comfort; and for the love of God willingl"}, {"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_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"}, {"id": "card_n_255b2f32e29b", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_504: Thus having treated of the hollowness of so many apparent virtues, it is but ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Thus having treated of the hollowness of so many apparent virtues, it is but just to say something on the hollowness of the contempt for death. I allude to that contempt of death which the heathen boa"}, {"id": "card_n_07253b581154", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_075: Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to liv...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear. [So Lord Byron{Stanzas, (1819), stanza 3} says of Love-- \"Like chiefs of facti"}, {"id": "card_n_d687cd8ec85a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_277: Women often think they love when they do not love.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Women often think they love when they do not love. The business of a love affair, the emotion of mind that sentiment induces, the natural bias towards the pleasure of being loved, the difficulty of re"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_119_140", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:140", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 119:140 — Here is, 1. David's great affection for the word of God: Thy servant loves it. Every good man, being a servant of God, loves the word of God, because it lets him know his Master's "}, {"id": "card_n_126ec22f0b76", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_055: The hate of favourites is only a love of favour.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_timothy_1_5", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 1:5", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Timothy 1:5 — Here the apostle instructs Timothy how to guard against the judaizing teachers, or others who mingled fables and endless genealogies with the gospel. He shows the use of the law, an"}]}