| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: ten minutes of the day, where this estate is or how beautiful it is,
or what kind of life they are to lead in it, or what kind of life
they must lead to obtain it.
You fancy that you care to know this: so little do you care that,
probably, at this moment many of you are displeased with me for
talking of the matter! You came to hear about the Art of this
world, not about the Life of the next, and you are provoked with me
for talking of what you can hear any Sunday in church. But do not
be afraid. I will tell you something before you go about pictures,
and carvings, and pottery, and what else you would like better to
hear of than the other world. Nay, perhaps you say, "We want you to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: twenty cubits.
EZE 41:3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two
cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven
cubits.
EZE 41:4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the
breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is
the most holy place.
EZE 41:5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the
breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on
every side.
EZE 41:6 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: was for our sakes he had so ardently longed to increase his fortune
- it was our interest that had lent such brightness to his hopes,
and that imparted such bitterness to his present distress. He now
tormented himself with remorse at having neglected my mother's
advice; which would at least have saved him from the additional
burden of debt - he vainly reproached himself for having brought
her from the dignity, the ease, the luxury of her former station to
toil with him through the cares and toils of poverty. It was gall
and wormwood to his soul to see that splendid, highly-accomplished
woman, once so courted and admired, transformed into an active
managing housewife, with hands and head continually occupied with
Agnes Grey |
