| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: was to serve a similar purpose for Nyleptha, a Queen of the Zu-Vendi.
As for Agon, he was with difficulty kept calm while this second
ceremony was going on, for he at once understood that it was
religious in its nature, and doubtless bethought him of the ninety-five
new faiths which loomed so ominously in his eyes. Indeed, he
at once set me down as a rival High Priest, and hated me accordingly.
However, in the end off he went, positively bristling with indignation,
and I knew that we might look out for danger from his direction.
And off went Good and I, and old Umslopogaas also, leaving the
happy pair to themselves, and very low we all felt. Marriages
are supposed to be cheerful things, but my experience is that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: belief that any standard higher than that is needed; and, all but
forgetting the very existence of civilisation, sink contented into a
dead level of intellectual mediocrity and moral barbarism, crying,
"Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
A nation in such a temper will surely be taken at its word. Where
the carcase is, there the eagles will be gathered together; and
there will not be wanting to such nations--as there were not wanting
in old Greece and Rome--despots who will give them all they want,
and more, and say to them: "Yes, you shall eat and drink; and yet
you shall not die. For I, while I take care of your mortal bodies,
will see that care is taken of your immortal souls."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: beginnings of sentiment teaches children to know whether or not they
are the first and sole thought, to find out those who love to think of
them and for them. If you really love children, the dear little ones,
with open hearts and unerring sense of justice, are marvelously ready
to respond to love. Their love knows passion and jealousy and the most
gracious delicacy of feeling; they find the tenderest words of
expression; they trust you--put an entire belief in you. Perhaps there
are no undutiful children without undutiful mothers, for a child's
affection is always in proportion to the affection that it receives--
in early care, in the first words that it hears, in the response of
the eyes to which a child first looks for love and life. All these
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