| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: down and subdue that fire and that excitability, so as to render
himself able to write thus as a little child? I once took the liberty
of censuring the conclusion of a letter of his to the Dean of
St. Paul's. He subscribed himself 'humbly yours,' and I objected to
the adverb. 'Well, but, Tyndall,' he said, 'I am humble; and still
it would be a great mistake to think that I am not also proud.'
This duality ran through his character. A democrat in his defiance
of all authority which unfairly limited his freedom of thought,
and still ready to stoop in reverence to all that was really worthy
of reverence, in the customs of the world or the characters of men.
And here, as well as elsewhere, may be introduced a letter which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: up-to-date self-complacent railway uneasiness of this hotel,
aroused a most painful feeling in Levin after their fresh young
life, especially because the impression of falsity made by the
hotel was so out of keeping with what awaited them.
As is invariably the case, after they had been asked at what
price they wanted rooms, it appeared that there was not one
decent room for them; one decent room had been taken by the
inspector of railroads, another by a lawyer from Moscow, a third
by Princess Astafieva from the country. There remained only one
filthy room, next to which they promised that another should be
empty by the evening. Feeling angry with his wife because what he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: MARINA.
That I am pretty.
BAWD.
Come, the gods have done their part in you.
MARINA.
I accuse them not.
BAWD.
You are light into my hands, where you are like to live.
MARINA.
The more my fault
To scape his hands where I was like to die.
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