| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: be laid at her feet.
--The best way for a man, is to say his prayers--
Only if it puts him in mind of his infirmities and defects as well ghostly
as bodily--for that purpose, he will find himself rather worse after he has
said them than before--for other purposes, better.
For my own part, there is not a way either moral or mechanical under heaven
that I could think of, which I have not taken with myself in this case:
sometimes by addressing myself directly to the soul herself, and arguing
the point over and over again with her upon the extent of her own
faculties--
--I never could make them an inch the wider--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: and I know the master would like to give him the chance.
He said if I thought he would not do he would look out for a bigger boy;
but I said I was quite agreeable to try him for six weeks."
"Six weeks!" said James; "why, it will be six months before he can be
of much use! It will make you a deal of work, John."
"Well," said John with a laugh, "work and I are very good friends;
I never was afraid of work yet."
"You are a very good man," said James. "I wish I may ever be like you."
"I don't often speak of myself," said John, "but as you are going
away from us out into the world to shift for yourself I'll just tell you
how I look on these things. I was just as old as Joseph
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: escape such a consummation by representing herself as a mere
instrument in Eyraud's hands. It was even urged in her defence
that, in committing the crime, she had acted under the
influence of hypnotic suggestion on the part of her accomplice.
Three doctors appointed by the examining magistrate to report on
her mental state came unanimously to the conclusion that, though
undoubtedly susceptible to hypnotic suggestion, there was no
ground for thinking that she had been acting under such influence
when she participated in the murder of Gouffe. Intellectually
the medical gentlemen found her alert and sane enough, but
morally blind.
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