| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: may indeed become all that it has been hitherto vainly vaunted to
be. Its editor will therefore, I doubt not, pardon me, in that, by
very reason of my respect for the journal, I do not let pass
unnoticed an article in its third number, page 5, which was wrong in
every word of it, with the intense wrongness which only an honest
man can achieve who has taken a false turn of thought in the outset,
and is following it, regardless of consequences. It contained at
the end this notable passage:-
"The bread of affliction, and the water of affliction,--aye, and the
bedsteads and blankets of affliction, are the very utmost that the
law ought to give to OUTCASTS MERELY AS OUTCASTS." I merely put
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 73: 6 Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covereth them as a garment.
Psalms 73: 7 Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart.
Psalms 73: 8 They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression; they speak as if there were none on high.
Psalms 73: 9 They have set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Psalms 73: 10 Therefore His people return hither; and waters of fullness are drained out by them.
Psalms 73: 11 And they say: 'How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'
Psalms 73: 12 Behold, such are the wicked; and they that are always at ease increase riches.
Psalms 73: 13 Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency;
Psalms 73: 14 For all the day have I been plagued, and my chastisement came every morning.
Psalms 73: 15 If I had said: 'I will speak thus', behold, I had been faithless to the generation of Thy children.
Psalms 73: 16 And when I pondered how I might know this, it was wearisome in mine eyes;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Alkahest by Honore de Balzac: of the family but to that of his country."
This mysterious explanation was too flattering to the ambition of a
town whose local patriotism and desire for glory exceed those of other
places, not to be readily accepted, and it produced on all minds a
reaction in favor of Balthazar.
The supposition of his wife was, to a certain extent, well-founded.
Several artificers of various trades had long been at work in the
garret of the front house, where Balthazar went early every morning.
After remaining, at first, for several hours, an absence to which his
wife and household grew gradually accustomed, he ended by being there
all day. But--unexpected shock!--Madame Claes learned through the
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