{"query": "A parable — Burnout well", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e7e731e3225d", "title": "A parable — Burnout well", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman drew water from her own strength for many years. The well went lower each season. When at last it was dry she sat at the wellhead and wept. A stranger came and said, 'There is another well, de"}, {"id": "card_n_ad1729369430", "title": "A parable — Returning to first", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man returned to the field of his youth. The well he had drunk from was still there but the path was overgrown. He cleared the path himself and drank. The water tasted the same. He had not lost the w"}, {"id": "card_n_ebd9f46f16cd", "title": "A parable — Addiction scroll", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man drew water from a well that had no bottom. The bucket was light, and came up empty every time. He kept drawing because the bucket was light. Years passed. He had moved his arm a hundred thousand"}, {"id": "card_n_ec6dc6d5b92f", "title": "A parable — Regression mean", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man was called lucky, for the dice fell well for him three nights in a row. He believed it, and bet his house on the fourth. The dice did not know they had favored him, and on the fourth night they "}, {"id": "card_n_34d672ea36f4", "title": "A parable — Addiction drink", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The wine looked red in the cup, and moved itself well, and went down smoothly. The wise man wrote it down, then warned: do not even look. At the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. T"}, {"id": "card_n_5f4cbdf547c1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_019: In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved not study, and hated to be forced to it. Yet I was forced; and this was well done towards me, but I did not well; for, unle"}, {"id": "card_c_b63f9907b828", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §367: IGNOR. references Well", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Well (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_a63e056b1ed1", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §243: But as for Christian, he had some respite, and was remanded back to prison. references Well", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Well (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_60896b51388e", "title": "Easton: Proverb", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A trite maxim; a similitude; a parable. The Hebrew word thus rendered (mashal) has a wide signification. It comes from a root meaning “to be like,” “parable.” Rendered “proverb” in Isa. 14:4; Hab. 2:6"}, {"id": "card_n_29770913899b", "title": "Easton: Jacob’s Well", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 4:5, 6). This is one of the few sites in Palestine about which there is no dispute. It was dug by Jacob, and hence its name, in the “parcel of ground” which he purchased from the sons of Hamor ("}, {"id": "card_n_860c6cffa6b5", "title": "Easton: Beer-lahai-roi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “the well of him that liveth and seeth me,” or, as some render it, “the well of the vision of life”, the well where the Lord met with Hagar (Gen. 16:7-14). Isaac dwelt beside this well (24:62; 2"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_isaiah_5_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Isaiah 5:1 — See what variety of methods the great God takes to awaken sinners to repentance by convincing them of sin, and showing them their misery and danger by reason of it. To this purport he "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_hosea_3_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Hosea 3:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Hosea 3:1 — Some think that this chapter refers to Judah, the two tribes, as the adulteress the prophet married (Hos 1:3) represented the ten tribes; for this was not to be divorced, as the ten tri"}, {"id": "card_n_69941284339e", "title": "Easton: Beersheba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Well of the oath, or well of seven, a well dug by Abraham, and so named because he and Abimelech here entered into a compact (Gen. 21:31). On re-opening it, Isaac gave it the same name (Gen. 26:31-33)"}, {"id": "card_n_4ec2f3ff4911", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_021: For what more miserable than a miserable being who commiserates not himself; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For what more miserable than a miserable being who commiserates not himself; weeping the death of Dido for love to Aeneas, but weeping not his own death for want of love to Thee, O God. Thou light of "}, {"id": "card_n_615dbe650610", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxi: Try also how a good man's life; (of one, who is well pleased with those thing...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Try also how a good man's life; (of one, who is well pleased with those things whatsoever, which among the common changes and chances of this world fall to his own lot and share; and can live well con"}, {"id": "card_n_e8bfbb5d765d", "title": "Easton: Beer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Well. (1.) A place where a well was dug by the direction of Moses, at the forty-fourth station of the Hebrews in their wanderings (Num. 21:16-18) in the wilderness of Moab. (See WELL.) (2.) A town in "}, {"id": "card_src_oeis_a001502", "title": "A001502 — Largest number requiring n syllables in English (U.S.) - not well-defined, but the next term may be twelve millillion, too large to write down here.", "shelf": "oeis", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Largest number requiring n syllables in English (U.S.) - not well-defined, but the next term may be twelve millillion, too large to write down here.  First terms: 12, 90, 12000000000000, ."}, {"id": "card_src_oeis_a001503", "title": "A001503 — Largest number requiring n syllables in English (U.K.) - not well-defined, but the next term may be twelve millillion, too large to write down here.", "shelf": "oeis", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Largest number requiring n syllables in English (U.K.) - not well-defined, but the next term may be twelve millillion, too large to write down here.  First terms: 12, 90, 12000000000000000000, ."}, {"id": "card_n_a0d2f3b5de65", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xliii: When thou hast done well, and another is benefited by thy action, must thou l...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When thou hast done well, and another is benefited by thy action, must thou like a very fool look for a third thing besides, as that it may appear unto others also that thou hast done well, or that th"}]}