| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: and threats of the reason.
The liver is imagined by Plato to be a smooth and bright substance, having
a store of sweetness and also of bitterness, which reason freely uses in
the execution of her mandates. In this region, as ancient superstition
told, were to be found intimations of the future. But Plato is careful to
observe that although such knowledge is given to the inferior parts of man,
it requires to be interpreted by the superior. Reason, and not enthusiasm,
is the true guide of man; he is only inspired when he is demented by some
distemper or possession. The ancient saying, that 'only a man in his
senses can judge of his own actions,' is approved by modern philosophy too.
The same irony which appears in Plato's remark, that 'the men of old time
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: front door just as I am departing with admonitions and
sandwiches that you have wrapped up for me. Upon
recognizing me as an old Harvard classmate he starts
back in -- "
"Not in surprise?" interrupted Tommy, with wide,
open eyes.
"He starts back in the doorway," continued the burglar.
And then he rose to his feet and began to shout "Rah,
rah, rah! rah, rah, rah! rah, rah, rah!"
"Well," said Tommy, wonderingly, "that's, the first
time I ever knew a burglar to give a college yell when he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Pol. Not I my Lord
Ham. Then I would you were so honest a man
Pol. Honest, my Lord?
Ham. I sir, to be honest as this world goes, is to bee
one man pick'd out of two thousand
Pol. That's very true, my Lord
Ham. For if the Sun breed Magots in a dead dogge,
being a good kissing Carrion-
Haue you a daughter?
Pol. I haue my Lord
Ham. Let her not walke i'thSunne: Conception is a
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