| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: paper. We must make the best possible crown paper at half the present
price; that is the first and foremost question for us."
Then David tried to size the pulp for the desired paper, and the
result was a harsh surface with grains of size distributed all over
it. On the day when the experiment was concluded and David held the
sheets in his hand, he went away to find a spot where he could be
alone and swallow his bitter disappointment. But Boniface Cointet went
in search of him and comforted him. Boniface was delightfully amiable.
"Do not lose heart," he said; "go on! I am a good fellow, I understand
you; I will stand by you to the end."
"Really," David said to his wife at dinner, "we are with good people;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: hill,, but it was a glorious sort of inhumanity.
They had a spirit--like sharp knives cutting through life."
It was her best bit of phrasing and it pleased Benham very much.
But, indeed, it was not her own phrasing, she had culled it from a
disquisition into which she had led Mr. Rathbone-me from going to pieces--and
wasting
existence. It's rather difficult sometimes to tell what one thinks
and feels--"
She had not really listened to him.
"Who is that woman," she interrupted sudd she had said it exactly as a boy
might have said it, she had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: would have us first learn that there is a God, and that His
Providence directs the Universe; further, that to hide from Him
not only one's acts but even one's thoughts and intentions is
impossible; secondly, what the nature of God is. Whatever that
nature is discovered to be, the man who would please and obey Him
must strive with all his might to be made like unto him. If the
Divine is faithful, he also must be faithful; if free, he also
must be free; if beneficent, he also must be beneficent; if
magnanimous, he also must be magnanimous. Thus as an imitator of
God must he follow Him in every deed and word.
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