| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: he's more and more a cat.
FIRST SOLDIER.
What say you to his expertness in war?
PAROLLES.
Faith, sir, has led the drum before the English tragedians,--to
belie him I will not,--and more of his soldiership I know not,
except in that country he had the honour to be the officer at a
place there called Mile-end to instruct for the doubling of
files: I would do the man what honour I can, but of this I am not
certain.
FIRST LORD.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: bidden to be the first of those resigned;' and it was said to me,
'Be not thou of the idolaters.' Say, 'I fear, if I rebel against my
Lord, the torment of the mighty day.'
Whomsoever it is averted from on that day, God will have had mercy
on; and that is obvious happiness.
And if God touch thee with harm, there is none to take it off but
He; and if He touch thee with good, He is mighty over all. He is
sovereign over His servants, He is the wise, the aware!
Say, 'What is the greatest witness?' Say, 'God is witness between
you and me.' This Koran was inspired to me to warn you and those it
reaches. Do ye really bear witness that with God are other gods?
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: Authority are always before a native he is as incapable as a child
of understanding what authority means, or where is the danger of
disobeying it. Tibasu was a forgotten little place with a few
Orissa Mohamedans in it. These, hearing nothing of the Collector-
Sahib for some time, and heartily despising the Hindu Sub-Judge,
arranged to start a little Mohurrum riot of their own. But the
Hindus turned out and broke their heads; when, finding lawlessness
pleasant, Hindus and Mahomedans together raised an aimless sort of
Donnybrook just to see how far they could go. They looted each
other's shops, and paid off private grudges in the regular way. It
was a nasty little riot, but not worth putting in the newspapers.
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