| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: earnestness, "for all my life long I have been doing things that
must have supplied you with material. Have you not heard that
I have built a school-house; the wing of a hospital; two--yes,
three--small churches, and the greater part of a large one,
the spire of St. Petro--"
The Keeper of the Gate lifted his hand.
"Wait," he said; "we know all these things. They were not ill
done.
But they were all marked and used as foundation for the name and
mansion of
John Weightman in the world. Did you not plan them for that?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: the overtaken combatant a blow. In coming to close quarters, it is a
good plan first to drag the foeman towards oneself, and then on a
sudden to thrust him off; that is a device to bring him to the
ground.[11] The correct plan for the man so dragged is to press his
horse forward: by which action the man who is being dragged is more
likely to unhorse his assailant than to be brought to the ground
himself.
[9] {ippota}. A poetic word; "cavaliers."
[10] Or, "manipulated."
[11] Or, "that may be spoken off as the 'purl trick'"; "it will
unhorse him if anything."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: "Why all the falseness?" thought Augustine, replying only with a bow.
Her silence was compulsory. The young woman saw before her a
superfluous witness of the scene. This personage was, of all the
Colonels in the army, the youngest, the most fashionable, and the
finest man. His face, full of life and youth, but already expressive,
was further enhanced by a small moustache twirled up into points, and
as black as jet, by a full imperial, by whiskers carefully combed, and
a forest of black hair in some disorder. He was whisking a riding whip
with an air of ease and freedom which suited his self-satisfied
expression and the elegance of his dress; the ribbons attached to his
button-hole were carelessly tied, and he seemed to pride himself much
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