| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: 194 A young nobleman's progress in politeness..
195 A young nobleman's introduction to the knowledge of the town.
196 Human opinions mutable. The hopes of youth fallacious.
197 The history of a legacy-hunter.
198 The legacy-hunter's history concluded.
199 The virtues of Rabbi Abraham's magnet.
200 Asper's complaint of the insolence of Prospero
Unpoliteness not always the effect of pride.
201 The importance of punctuality.
202 The different acceptations of poverty. Cynicks and Monks not poor.
203 The pleasures of life to be sought in prospects of futurity.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: damped your critical ardour, you will see many things to be
laughed at in the deportment of your rivals.
Most laughable, perhaps, are your indefatigable strivers
after eloquence. They are of those who 'pursue with
eagerness the phantoms of hope,' and who, since they expect
that 'the deficiencies of last sentence will be supplied by
the next,' have been recommended by Dr. Samuel Johnson to
'attend to the History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.'
They are characterised by a hectic hopefulness. Nothing
damps them. They rise from the ruins of one abortive
sentence, to launch forth into another with unabated vigour.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: Tugela.
You will ask me what they said. I do not know. Either the words
were confused or the events that followed have blotted them from
my brain. All I remember is that each of them seemed to be
speaking of the Zulus and their fate and to be very anxious to
refer further discussion of the matter to some one else. In
short they seemed to talk under protest, or that was my
impression, although Goza, the only person with whom I had any
subsequent debate upon the subject, appeared to have gathered one
that was different, though what it was I do not recall. The only
words that remained clear to me must, I thought, have come from
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