| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: quitting our animosities and factions, nor acting any longer like
the Jews, who were murdering one another at the very moment their
city was taken: Of being a little cautious not to sell our
country and consciences for nothing: Of teaching landlords to
have at least one degree of mercy towards their tenants. Lastly,
of putting a spirit of honesty, industry, and skill into our
shop-keepers, who, if a resolution could now be taken to buy only
our native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and exact upon
us in the price, the measure, and the goodness, nor could ever
yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing, though
often and earnestly invited to it.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Till I return, of posting is no need.
O! what excuse will my poor beast then find,
When swift extremity can seem but slow?
Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind,
In winged speed n:motion shall I know,
Then can no horse with my desire keep pace;
Therefore desire, of perfect'st love being made,
Shall neigh--no dull flesh--in his fiery race;
But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade,--
'Since from thee going, he went wilful-slow,
Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: mealie fields. She was one of our company."
"Oh," said Peter.
"Other members we have here," said the stranger. "There was a prospector"-
-he pointed north; "he was a man who drank and swore when it listed him;
but he had many servants, and they knew where to find him in need. When
they were ill, he tended them with his own hands; when they were in
trouble, they came to him for help. When this war began, and all black
men's hearts were bitter, because certain white men had lied to them, and
their envoys had been killed when they would have asked England to put her
hand out over them; at that time certain of the men who fought the white
men came to the prospector's hut. And the prospector fired at them from a
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