| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: "I must see it to believe it!" cried the Countess.
"Far be it from you!" exclaimed the Abbe. "You must forgive, my
daughter, and wait in patience and prayer till God enlightens your
husband; unless, indeed, you choose to adopt against him the means
offered you by human laws."
The long conversation that ensued between the priest and his penitent
resulted in an extraordinary change in the Countess; she abruptly
dismissed him, called her servants who were alarmed at her flushed
face and crazy energy. She ordered her carriage--countermanded it--
changed her mind twenty times in the hour; but at last, at about three
o'clock, as if she had come to some great determination, she went out,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: that were missing from Lake’s hideously ravaged camp. There was
something abnormal about that whole business - the strange things
we had tried so hard to lay to somebody’s madness - those frightful
graves - the amount and nature of the missing material - Gedney
- the unearthly toughness of those archaic monstrosities, and
the queer vital freaks the sculptures now showed the race to have
- Danforth and I had seen a good deal in the last few hours, and
were prepared to believe and keep silent about many appalling
and incredible secrets of primal nature.
IX
I have said that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: clearly better than slowness and quietness?
Clearly they are.
Then temperance is not quietness, nor is the temperate life quiet,--
certainly not upon this view; for the life which is temperate is supposed
to be the good. And of two things, one is true,--either never, or very
seldom, do the quiet actions in life appear to be better than the quick and
energetic ones; or supposing that of the nobler actions, there are as many
quiet, as quick and vehement: still, even if we grant this, temperance
will not be acting quietly any more than acting quickly and energetically,
either in walking or talking or in anything else; nor will the quiet life
be more temperate than the unquiet, seeing that temperance is admitted by
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