| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: rocker and offered her warm plum-like cheek. Bright-haired Ethel pecked
his beard, Marion's lips brushed his ear.
"Did you walk back, father?" asked Charlotte.
"Yes, I walked home," said old Mr. Neave, and he sank into one of the
immense drawing-room chairs.
"But why didn't you take a cab?" said Ethel. "There are hundred of cabs
about at that time."
"My dear Ethel," cried Marion, "if father prefers to tire himself out, I
really don't see what business of ours it is to interfere."
"Children, children?" coaxed Charlotte.
But Marion wouldn't be stopped. "No, mother, you spoil father, and it's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: And that virtue has another familiar attendant--to wit, glory--needs
no showing, since the whole world would fain ally themselves after
some sort in battle with the good.
[1] See Homer, "Il." v. 532; Tyrtaeus, 11, 14, {tressanton d' andron
pas' apolol arete}.
Yet the actual means by which he gave currency to these principles is
a point which it were well not to overlook. It is clear that the
lawgiver set himself deliberately to provide all the blessings of
heaven for the good man, and a sorry and ill-starred existence for the
coward.
In other states the man who shows himself base and cowardly wins to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: She gallops by the fields along.
AS IN THEIR FLIGHT THE BIRDS OF SONG
AS in their flight the birds of song
Halt here and there in sweet and sunny dales,
But halt not overlong;
The time one rural song to sing
They pause; then following bounteous gales
Steer forward on the wing:
Sun-servers they, from first to last,
Upon the sun they wait
To ride the sailing blast.
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