| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: a fast, and I will not speak to-day with a human being."'
Then she brought it to her people, carrying it; said they, 'O
Mary! thou hast done an extraordinary thing! O sister of Aaron! thy
father was not a bad man, nor was thy mother a harlot!'
And she pointed to him, and they said, 'How are we to speak with one
who is in the cradle a child?' He said, 'Verily, I am a servant of
God; He has brought me the Book, and He has made me a prophet, and
He has made me blessed wherever I be; and He has required of me prayer
and almsgiving so long as I live, and piety towards my mother, and has
not made me a miserable tyrant; and peace upon me the day I was
born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised up alive.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: To mock the subtle, in themselves beguil'd;
To cheer the ploughman with increaseful crops,
And waste huge stones with little water-drops.
'Why work'st thou mischief in thy pilgrimage,
Unless thou couldst return to make amends?
One poor retiring minute in an age
Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends,
Lending him wit that to bad debtors lends:
O, this dread night, wouldst thou one hour come back,
I could prevent this storm, and shun thy wrack!
'Thou cease!ess lackey to eternity,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: promenading up and down in the forward part of the steamer.
The detective rushed forward with every appearance of extreme
surprise, and exclaimed, "You here, on the Rangoon?"
"What, Monsieur Fix, are you on board?" returned the really
astonished Passepartout, recognising his crony of the Mongolia.
"Why, I left you at Bombay, and here you are, on the way to Hong Kong!
Are you going round the world too?"
"No, no," replied Fix; "I shall stop at Hong Kong--at least for some days."
"Hum!" said Passepartout, who seemed for an instant perplexed.
"But how is it I have not seen you on board since we left Calcutta?"
"Oh, a trifle of sea-sickness--I've been staying in my berth.
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