| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together;
To themselves yet either-neither,
Simple were so well compounded.
That it cried how true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none
If what parts can so remain.
Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-supreme and stars of love;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: but had also not subsided.
'If we could only hear those peasants!' said Vasili Andreevich.
'Well they haven't caught us up. We must have gone far astray.
Or maybe they have lost their way too.'
'Where are we to go then?' asked Vasili Andreevich.
'Why, we must let the horse take its own way,' said Nikita.
'He will take us right. Let me have the reins.'
Vasili Andreevich gave him the reins, the more willingly
because his hands were beginning to feel frozen in his thick
gloves.
Nikita took the reins, but only held them, trying not to shake
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: strips off all the secondary considerations, the allusiveness,
the merely tactical considerations, the allusiveness, the merely
tactical considerations. One sees the forest not as a confusion
of trees but as something with a definite shape and place. I was
asked in Italy and in France, "Where does Lord Northcliffe come
into the British system--or Lloyd George? Who is Mr. Redmond?
Why is Lloyd George a Minister, and why does not Mr. Redmond take
office? Isn't there something called an ordnance department, and
why is there a separate ministry of munitions? Can Mr. Lloyd
George remove an incapable general?..."
I found it M. Joseph Reinach particularly penetrating and
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