| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: At the first sign of this concession I could only go to meet her.
"I am afraid you have not had many, of late, but they shall begin
again immediately--tomorrow, tonight."
"Oh, do send us some tonight!" Miss Tita cried, as if it
were an immense circumstance.
"What else should you do with them? It isn't a manly taste to make a bower
of your room," the old woman remarked.
"I don't make a bower of my room, but I am exceedingly fond of growing
flowers, of watching their ways. There is nothing unmanly in that:
it has been the amusement of philosophers, of statesmen in retirement;
even I think of great captains."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: red at the knowledge.
Sir James was at that moment examining the great tilting helm,
and Lord George watched him, smiling amusedly. "And hast thou
then already chosen thee a lady?" he said, presently.
"Aye, my Lord," answered Myles, simply.
"Marry, I trust we be so honored that she is one of our castle
folk," said the Earl's brother.
For a moment Myles did not reply; then he looked up. "My Lord,"
said he, "the favor was given to me by the Lady Alice."
Lord George looked grave for the moment; then he laughed. "Marry,
thou art a bold archer to shoot for such high game."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: certain absolute truths and laws of which they were only the embodiment.
Words and thought were to him a field for careful and reverent
induction, as the phenomena of nature are to us the disciples of Bacon.
But with these hapless Megarans, who thought that they had found that
for which Socrates professed only to seek dimly and afar off, and had
got it safe in a dogma, preserved as it were in spirits, and put by in a
museum, the great use of dialectic was to confute opponents. Delight in
their own subtlety grew on them, the worship not of objective truth, but
of the forms of the intellect whereby it may be demonstrated; till they
became the veriest word-splitters, rivals of the old sophists whom their
master had attacked, and justified too often Aristophanes' calumny,
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