{"query": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_493: It appears that men do not fin", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_02d1bbbf81bc", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_493: It appears that men do not find they have enough faults, as they increase the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It appears that men do not find they have enough faults, as they increase the number by certain peculiar qualities that they affect to assume, and which they cultivate with so great assiduity that at "}, {"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_7242ded11ca9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_027: For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she had remembered it, she had never found it. For when it was found, whence should she know whether it were the same, unless "}, {"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. 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It is plain it was wrong in Davi"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_19_18", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:18", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 19:18 — Parents are here cautioned against a foolish indulgence of their children that are untoward and viciously inclined, and that discover such an ill temper of mind as is not likely to"}, {"id": "card_n_b8ec61524d9a", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_216: Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the wo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world. 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[A maxim, adds Aime Martin, \"Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral trea"}, {"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_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? 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For that no body is moved, but in time, I hear; this Thou sayest; but that the motion of a body is time, I h"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_147_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 147:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 147:1 — Here, I. The duty of praise is recommended to us. It is not without reason that we are thus called to it again and again: Praise you the Lord (Psa 147:1), and again (Psa 147:7), Sing"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_119_155", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:155", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 119:155 — Here is, 1. The description of wicked men. They do not only do God's statutes, but they do not so much as seek them; they do not acquaint themselves with them, nor so much as desir"}, {"id": "card_n_592b275b3694", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_021: Whence is this monstrousness?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence is this monstrousness? and to what end? Let Thy mercy gleam that I may ask, if so be the secret penalties of men, and those darkest pangs of the sons of Adam, may perhaps answer me. Whence is t"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_17_8", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:8", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 17:8 — The design of this observation is to show, 1. That those who have money in their hand think they can do any thing with it. Rich men value a little money as if it were a precious sto"}, {"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"}]}