{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_313: How is it that our memory is g", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f1a8b3131ce5", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_313: How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? [\"Old men who yet retain "}, {"id": "card_n_f73877a9def8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_037: But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not? or how that past increased, which is now no longer, save that in the mind which enacteth this, there be three things done? For it ex"}, {"id": "card_n_de918342534c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_024: What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name? whence should I recognise it, did I not remember it? I speak not of the sound of the name, but of the thing which it signifies: which"}, {"id": "card_c_751d49f1dcec", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_313: How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that ... 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_src_comm_psalms_53_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 53:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 53:1 — This psalm was opened before, and therefore we shall here only observe, in short, some things concerning sin, in order to the increasing of our sorrow for it and hatred of it. 1. The "}, {"id": "card_n_3fb5ee50a72f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_029: How then do I seek Thee, O Lord?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How then do I seek Thee, O Lord? For when I seek Thee, my God, I seek a happy life. I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul; and my soul by Thee. How then do I seek a ha"}, {"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_339ec3907a77", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_025: Lord, I, truly, toil therein, yea and toil in myself; I am become a heavy soi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, I, truly, toil therein, yea and toil in myself; I am become a heavy soil requiring over much sweat of the brow. For we are not now searching out the regions of heaven, or measuring the distances"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_25_25", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:25", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 25:25 — See here, 1. How natural it is to us to desire to hear good news from our friends, and concerning our affairs at a distance. It is sometimes with impatience that we expect to hear "}, {"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_62ce6b705cad", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xix: As one that tosseth up a ball.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As one that tosseth up a ball. And what is a ball the better, if the motion of it be upwards; or the worse if it be downwards; or if it chance to fall upon the ground? So for the bubble; if it continu"}, {"id": "card_n_75558cb470fa", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_081: We can love nothing but what agrees with us, and we can only follow our taste...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We can love nothing but what agrees with us, and we can only follow our taste or our pleasure when we prefer our friends to ourselves; nevertheless it is only by that preference that friendship can be"}, {"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_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_234793cfc334", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_404: It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_3_13", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 3:13", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 3:13 — Solomon had pressed us earnestly to seek diligently for wisdom (Pro 2:1, etc.), and had assured us that we should succeed in our sincere and constant pursuits. But the question is, "}, {"id": "card_n_5232a0af5850", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_034: Courage, my mind, and press on mightily.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Courage, my mind, and press on mightily. God is our helper, He made us, and not we ourselves. Press on where truth begins to dawn. Suppose, now, the voice of a body begins to sound, and does sound, an"}, {"id": "card_n_58913aca9d7d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xvi: He who is greedy of credit and reputation after his death, doth not consider,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He who is greedy of credit and reputation after his death, doth not consider, that they themselves by whom he is remembered, shall soon after every one of them be dead; and they likewise that succeed "}, {"id": "card_n_d09c750e53ec", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_412: Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to r...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character. [\"This is hardly a period at which the most irregular character may not be redeemed. The mistake"}, {"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"}]}