| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: dream; the shadow of my own head."
The old man smiled.
"Her name is Truth. He who has once seen her never rests again. Till
death he desires her."
And the hunter cried:
"Oh, tell me where I may find her."
But the old man said:
"You have not suffered enough," and went.
Then the hunter took from his breast the shuttle of Imagination, and wound
on it the thread of his Wishes; and all night he sat and wove a net.
In the morning he spread the golden net upon the ground, and into it he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: opsei oligous ton idioton, pollous de ton turannon}. Stob. MS.
Par., {alla mentoi kai plousious opsei oukh outos oligous ton
idioton os penetas pollous ton turannon}. See Holden ad loc. and
crit. n.
[15] Cf. "Mem." IV. ii. 37.
[16] Or, "not by the number of things we have, but in reference to the
use we make of them." Cf. "Anab." VII. vii. 36.
[17] Dr. Holden aptly cf. Addison, "The Spectator," No. 574, on the
text "Non possidentem multa vocaveris recte beatum . . ."
And on this principle the tyrant, with his multiplicity of goods, is
less well provided to meet necessary expenses than the private person;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing
its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments
long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed
to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
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