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Behold, they went and came day by day, and by coming and going, introduced into my mind other", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_1e57780a5016", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_017: What then was this feeling?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then was this feeling? For of a truth it was too foul: and woe was me, who had it. But yet what was it? Who can understand his errors? It was the sport, which as it were tickled our hearts, that ", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_b56e2a0cd049", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_017: Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee. Whatever by her thou hast sense of, is in part; and the whole, whereof these are parts, thou knowest not; and yet they deli", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. AD 400)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_a84edfe2920a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_003: O Lord my God, give ear unto my prayer, and let Thy mercy hearken unto my des...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord my God, give ear unto my prayer, and let Thy mercy hearken unto my desire: because it is anxious not for myself alone, but would serve brotherly charity; and Thou seest my heart, that so it is.", "authority_tier": "father", "source": "Augustine, Confessions (c. 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