| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: Just so, he said; and that, in my opinion, is a far truer account of the
teaching of Protagoras.
I said: I wonder whether you know what you are doing?
And what am I doing?
You are going to commit your soul to the care of a man whom you call a
Sophist. And yet I hardly think that you know what a Sophist is; and if
not, then you do not even know to whom you are committing your soul and
whether the thing to which you commit yourself be good or evil.
I certainly think that I do know, he replied.
Then tell me, what do you imagine that he is?
I take him to be one who knows wise things, he replied, as his name
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: mountain's brow, towering high into the air. There it stood a
giant and awakened corpse, its white wrappings stained with blood,
and we trembled to see it.
For a while the wraith remained thus gazing towards the city of
Tenoctitlan, then suddenly it threw its vast arms upward as though
in grief, and at that moment the night rushed in upon it and
covered it, while the sound of wailing died slowly away.
'Say, Teule,' gasped the emperor, 'do I not well to be afraid when
such portents as these meet my eyes day by day? Hearken to the
lamentations in the city; we have not seen this sight alone.
Listen how the people cry aloud with fear and the priests beat
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