| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: hardly needed. We have also seen that expression in itself,
or the language of the emotions, as it has sometimes been called,
is certainly of importance for the welfare of mankind.
To understand, as far as possible, the source or origin of
the various expressions which may be hourly seen on the faces
of the men around us, not to mention our domesticated animals,
ought to possess much interest for us. From these several causes,
we may conclude that the philosophy of our subject has well
deserved the attention which it has already received from several
excellent observers, and that it deserves still further attention,
especially from any able physiologist.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: love. I'll not weary you with details. Time was needed for this as
for all things, and by next spring, perhaps, had matters gone well,
this vineyard that so carefully and secretly I have been tending, would
have been, maybe, in condition to bear fruit. Even now, in the hour of
my flight, I learn that others have come to force this delicate growth
into sudden maturity. There! Soon ripe, soon rotten. The Duke of
Monmouth has landed at Lyme this morning. I am riding to him."
"To what end?" she cried, and he saw in her face a dismay that amounted
almost to fear, and he wondered was it for him.
"To place my sword at his service Were I not encompassed by this ruin,
I should not have stirred a foot in that direction - so rash, so
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: revolutionary in some way or other can expect to attract much
attention I have not been revolutionary in my writings. The
revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees
one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard, absolute
optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and
intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these
things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All
claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger
from which a philosophical mind should be free. . .
I fear that trying to be conversational I have only managed to be
unduly discursive. I have never been very well acquainted with
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