| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: until the herdsmen have finished; for our father is a very old man.'
So he watered for them; then he turned back towards the shade and
said, 'My Lord! verily, I stand in need of what Thou sendest down to
me of good.'
And one of the two came to him walking modestly; said she,
'Verily, my father calls thee, to reward thee with hire for having
watered our flocks for us.' And when he came to him and related to him
the story, said he, 'Fear not, thou art safe from the unjust
people.' Said one of them, 'O my sire! hire him; verily, the best of
those whom thou canst hire is the strong and faithful.'
Said he, 'Verily, I desire to marry thee to one of these daughters
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: agreed to dismiss as childish and obvious and detrimental to the true
course of thought; and no more favour is shown to that other puzzle, in
which a person proves the members and parts of anything to be divided, and
then confessing that they are all one, says laughingly in disproof of his
own words: Why, here is a miracle, the one is many and infinite, and the
many are only one.
PROTARCHUS: But what, Socrates, are those other marvels connected with
this subject which, as you imply, have not yet become common and
acknowledged?
SOCRATES: When, my boy, the one does not belong to the class of things
that are born and perish, as in the instances which we were giving, for in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: unwilling I sunk down under the heat, toil and pain; the brutal
manner in which Covey had kicked me in the side; the gash cut in
my head; my hesitation about troubling him (Capt. Auld) with
complaints; but, that now I felt it would not be best longer to
conceal from him the outrages committed on me from time to time
by Covey. At first, master Thomas seemed somewhat affected by
the story of my wrongs, but he soon repressed his feelings and
became cold as iron. It was impossible--as I stood before him at
the first--for him to seem indifferent. I distinctly saw his
human nature asserting its conviction against the slave system,
which made cases like mine _possible;_ but, as I have said,
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