{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_029: How then do I seek", "count": 20, "results": [{"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", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_8087d5daa7d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_003: What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if they could heal all my infirmities--a race, curious to know the lives of others, slothful to amend their own? 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