| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: despise the body, and who pass their lives in philosophy?
Most assuredly.
For the courage and temperance of other men, if you will consider them, are
really a contradiction.
How so?
Well, he said, you are aware that death is regarded by men in general as a
great evil.
Very true, he said.
And do not courageous men face death because they are afraid of yet greater
evils?
That is quite true.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Come in," he said, growing serious, "and let us talk
it over."
So they went into a room of the palace and talked
long and earnestly.
"The boy intends to liberate his father and mother,
and all the people of Pingaree, and to take them back
to their island," said Cor. "He may also destroy our
palaces and make us his slaves. I can see but one way,
Gos, to prevent him from doing all this, and whatever
else he pleases to do."
"What way is that?" asked King Gos.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: walking off with Lord Masham. Our friend fell back and joined Lady
Watermouth, to whom he presently mentioned that Mrs. St. George had
been obliged to renounce the attempt to go further.
"She oughtn't to have come out at all," her ladyship rather
grumpily remarked.
"Is she so very much of an invalid?"
"Very bad indeed." And his hostess added with still greater
austerity: "She oughtn't really to come to one!" He wondered what
was implied by this, and presently gathered that it was not a
reflexion on the lady's conduct or her moral nature: it only
represented that her strength was not equal to her aspirations.
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