| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson: too much out of place, and I prefer to pay my fealty and pass on.
How often I have read GUY MANNERING, ROB ROY, OR REDGAUNTLET, I
have no means of guessing, having begun young. But it is either
four or five times that I have read THE EGOIST, and either five or
six that I have read the VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE.
Some, who would accept the others, may wonder that I should have
spent so much of this brief life of ours over a work so little
famous as the last. And, indeed, I am surprised myself; not at my
own devotion, but the coldness of the world. My acquaintance with
the VICOMTE began, somewhat indirectly, in the year of grace 1863,
when I had the advantage of studying certain illustrated dessert
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: He then found that he could electrify, by induction, an insulated
sphere placed completely in the shadow of a body which screened it
from direct action. He pictured the lines of electric force bending
round the edges of the screen, and reuniting on the other side of it;
and he proved that in many cases the augmentation of the distance
between his insulated sphere and the inducing body, instead of
lessening, increased the charge of the sphere. This he ascribed to
the coalescence of the lines of electric force at some distance
behind the screen.
Faraday's theoretic views on this subject have not received general
acceptance, but they drove him to experiment, and experiment with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: SA1 3:6 And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and
went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he
answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.
SA1 3:7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of
the LORD yet revealed unto him.
SA1 3:8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose
and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli
perceived that the LORD had called the child.
SA1 3:9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be,
if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant
heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
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