| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: "This is the story that has spoiled Davidson's smile for him -
which perhaps it wouldn't have done so thoroughly had he been less
of a good fellow."
Hollis ceased. But before we rose from the table I asked him if he
knew what had become of Laughing Anne's boy.
He counted carefully the change handed him by the Chinaman waiter,
and raised his head.
"Oh! that's the finishing touch. He was a bright, taking little
chap, as you know, and the Fathers took very special pains in his
bringing up. Davidson expected in his heart to have some comfort
out of him. In his placid way he's a man who needs affection.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: down' and look at itself in the glass. The great, if not the only use of
such a study is a practical one,--to know, first, human nature, and,
secondly, our own nature, as it truly is.
(3) Hence it is important that we should conceive of the mind in the
noblest and simplest manner. While acknowledging that language has been
the greatest factor in the formation of human thought, we must endeavour to
get rid of the disguises, oppositions, contradictions, which arise out of
it. We must disengage ourselves from the ideas which the customary use of
words has implanted in us. To avoid error as much as possible when we are
speaking of things unseen, the principal terms which we use should be few,
and we should not allow ourselves to be enslaved by them. Instead of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac: was one of those beings who keep all the promise of their beauty.
The pair, who for a few minutes were the centre of general
observation, did not for long give curiosity an opportunity of
exercising itself about them. The Colonel and the Countess seemed
perfectly to understand that accident had placed them in an awkward
position. Martial, as they came forward, had hastened to join the
group of men by the fireplace, that he might watch Madame de
Vaudremont with the jealous anxiety of the first flame of passion,
from behind the heads which formed a sort of rampart; a secret voice
seemed to warn him that the success on which he prided himself might
perhaps be precarious. But the coldly polite smile with which the
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