| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: "Yes; you can fancy I haven't many minutes to waste. There was a
place to-night I had to stop at."
"I see, I see--" he knew already so much about her work. "It must
be an awful grind--for a lady."
"It is, but I don't think I groan over it any more than my
companions--and you've seen THEY'RE not ladies!" She mildly
jested, but with an intention. "One gets used to things, and there
are employments I should have hated much more." She had the finest
conception of the beauty of not at least boring him. To whine, to
count up her wrongs, was what a barmaid or a shop-girl would do,
and it was quite enough to sit there like one of these.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sophist by Plato: imagination and common language to that of opinion and reflection the human
mind was exposed to many dangers, and often
'Found no end in wandering mazes lost.'
On the other hand, the discovery of abstractions was the great source of
all mental improvement in after ages. It was the pushing aside of the old,
the revelation of the new. But each one of the company of abstractions, if
we may speak in the metaphorical language of Plato, became in turn the
tyrant of the mind, the dominant idea, which would allow no other to have a
share in the throne. This is especially true of the Eleatic philosophy:
while the absoluteness of Being was asserted in every form of language, the
sensible world and all the phenomena of experience were comprehended under
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: yet Dingaan will strike for his life. When you might have killed you
did not kill; now the hour has gone."
"Wise words!" said Galazi. "I would that the Watcher had fallen where
his shadow fell."
"What is your counsel now, father?" asked Umslopogaas.
"This, then: that you two should abide no more beneath the shadow of
the Ghost Mountain, but should gather your people and your cattle, and
pass to the north on the track of Mosilikatze the Lion, who broke away
from Chaka. There you may rule apart or together, and never dream of
Dingaan."
"I will not do that, father," he answered. "I will dwell beneath the
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