| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: he had outwardly torn himself, now, when no longer allowable,
governed every thought; and the connection, for the sake
of which he had, with little scruple, left her sister
to misery, was likely to prove a source of unhappiness
to himself of a far more incurable nature. From a reverie
of this kind she was recalled at the end of some minutes
by Willoughby, who, rousing himself from a reverie at least
equally painful, started up in preparation for going, and said--
"There is no use in staying here; I must be off."
"Are you going back to town?"
"No--to Combe Magna. I have business there;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lesser Hippias by Plato: voluntarily.
SOCRATES: And does not the same hold of the bow and the lyre, the flute
and all other things?
HIPPIAS: Very true.
SOCRATES: And would you rather have a horse of such a temper that you may
ride him ill voluntarily or involuntarily?
HIPPIAS: I would rather have a horse which I could ride ill voluntarily.
SOCRATES: That would be the better horse?
HIPPIAS: Yes.
SOCRATES: Then with a horse of better temper, vicious actions would be
produced voluntarily; and with a horse of bad temper involuntarily?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: some silver ornaments - was a 'GEBORENE GRAFIN' who had married
beneath her; and when Fleeming explained what he called the English
theory (though indeed it was quite his own) of married relations,
Joseph, admiring but unconvinced, avowed it was 'GAR SCHON.'
Joseph's cousin, Walpurga Moser, to an orchestra of clarionet and
zither, taught the family the country dances, the Steierisch and
the Landler, and gained their hearts during the lessons. Her
sister Loys, too, who was up at the Alp with the cattle, came down
to church on Sundays, made acquaintance with the Jenkins, and must
have them up to see the sunrise from her house upon the Loser,
where they had supper and all slept in the loft among the hay. The
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