| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: both nearly lost their eyesight. Witness now had a film over his
eyes. Five years ago deceased applied to the parish for aid. The
relieving officer gave him a 4lb. loaf, and told him if he came
again he should "get the stones." {19} That disgusted deceased, and
he would have nothing to do with them since. They got worse and
worse until last Friday week, when they had not even a half-penny to
buy a candle. Deceased then lay down on the straw, and said he
could not live till morning.--A juror: "You are dying of starvation
yourself, and you ought to go into the house until the summer."--
Witness: "If we went in we should die. When we come out in the
summer we should be like people dropped from the sky. No one would
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: moved to the door. After he had gone the German sighed again over his
work:
"Ah, Lord! So it is! Ah!"
He thought of the ingratitude of the world.
"Uncle Otto," said the child in the doorway, "did you ever hear of ten
bears sitting on their tails in a circle?"
"Well, not of ten exactly: but bears do attack travellers every day. It
is nothing unheard of," said the German. "A man of such courage, too!
Terrible experience that!"
"And how do we know that the story is true, Uncle Otto?"
The German's ire was roused.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Although thou steal thee all my poverty:
And yet, love knows it is a greater grief
To bear greater wrong, than hate's known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes.
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Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,
For still temptation follows where thou art.
Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won,
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