| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: all the world should speak of him in terms of gold, yet we cannot bear
that the best is spoken about others.
Therefore, to avoid this vice we should note that no one is allowed
publicly to judge and reprove his neighbor, although he may see him
sin, unless he have a command to judge and to reprove. For there is a
great difference between these two things, judging sin and knowing sin.
You may indeed know it, but you are not to judge it. I can indeed see
and hear that my neighbor sins, but I have no command to report it to
others. Now, if I rush in, judging and passing sentence, I fall into a
sin which is greater than his. But if you know it, do nothing else
than turn your ears into a grave and cover it, until you are appointed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: negro" at the very first opportunity which came to him; his phosphates
had done this for him, at least, and I should have the pleasure of
correcting Juno at tea.
But I did not have this pleasure. They were all in an excitement over
something else, and my own different excitement hadn't a chance against
this greater one; for people seldom wish to hear what you have to say,
even under the most favorable circumstances, and never when they have
anything to say themselves. With an audience so hotly preoccupied I
couldn't have sat on Juno effectively at all, and therefore I kept it to
myself, and attended very slightly to what they were telling me about the
Daughters of Dixie.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: over the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale
did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid
hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies,
which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from
anything that visibly appears. So that in many cases such a panic
did he finally strike, that few who by those rumors, at least, had
heard of the White Whale, few of those hunters were willing to
encounter the perils of his jaw.
But there were still other and more vital practical influences at
work. Not even at the present day has the original prestige of the
Sperm Whale, as fearfully distinguished from all other species of the
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