The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: subject to other men. Hence it comes that obedience is so highly
praised and all virtue and good works are included in it.
III. There is another dishonoring of parents, much more dangerous
and subtile than this first, which adorns itself and passes for
a real honor; that is, when a child has its own way, and the
parents through natural love allow it. Here there is indeed
mutual honor, here there is mutual love, and on all sides it is
a precious thing, parents and child take mutual pleasure in one
another.
This plague is so common that instances of the first form of
dishonoring are very seldom seen. This is due to the fact that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: show him how to win the fleece.'
So in the dusk of evening they went down to the river-side,
Chalciope and Medeia the witch-maiden, and Argus, Phrixus'
son. And Argus the boy crept forward, among the beds of
reeds, till he came where the heroes were sleeping, on the
thwarts of the ship, beneath the bank, while Jason kept ward
on shore, and leant upon his lance full of thought. And the
boy came to Jason, and said -
'I am the son of Phrixus, your Cousin; and Chalciope my
mother waits for you, to talk about the golden fleece.'
Then Jason went boldly with the boy, and found the two
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: dition which is due to your human judgment, the
greater part of them are far better than you or
those who were their judges and who keep them
here. This one"--he pointed to the handsome,
curly-headed fellow--"is a murderer. I do not
consider him more guilty than those who kill in
war or in duelling, and are rewarded for their
deeds. He had neither education nor moral
guidance, and his life had been cast among thieves
and drunkards. This lessens his guilt, but he has
done wrong, nevertheless, in being a murderer.
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