{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_404: It appears that nature has hid", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_n_c4449448df1e", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_vi: Every particular nature hath content, when in its own proper course it speeds.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Every particular nature hath content, when in its own proper course it speeds. A reasonable nature doth then speed, when first in matter of fancies and imaginations, it gives no consent to that which "}, {"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_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. 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For the nature of the universe, having made all reasonable creatures one for another, to the end that they should do one another good; more or less according to the"}, {"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_src_comm_proverbs_28_8", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:8", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 28:8 — Note, 1. That which is ill-got, though it may increase much, will not last long. A man may perhaps raise a great estate, in a little time, by usury and extortion, fraud, and oppress"}, {"id": "card_n_fba06ae2fcf0", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_102: The head is ever the dupe of the heart.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The head is ever the dupe of the heart. [A feeble imitation of that great thought \"All folly comes from the heart.\"--Aime Martin. But Bonhome, in his L'art De Penser, says \"Plusieurs diraient en perio"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_ecclesiastes_3_11", "title": "Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:11", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Ecclesiastes 3:11 — We have seen what changes there are in the world, and must not expect to find the world more sure to us than it has been to others. 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