| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: but the higher and the diviner calling of self-sacrifice; and let
her never desert that higher life, which lives in others and for
others, like her Redeemer and her Lord.
And if any should answer that this doctrine would keep woman a
dependent and a slave, I rejoin--Not so: it would keep her what
she should be--the mistress of all around her, because mistress of
herself. And more, I should express a fear that those who made
that answer had not yet seen into the mystery of true greatness
and true strength; that they did not yet understand the true
magnanimity, the true royalty of that spirit, by which the Son of
man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: on the spot; it is a disgrace to have a horse brought to the shop
in a condition like that; you are liable to be taken up by the police
for such driving, and if you are you need not look to me for bail,
for I have spoken to you till I'm tired; you must look out for yourself."
During this speech the boy had stood by, sullen and dogged,
but when his father ceased he broke out angrily. It wasn't his fault,
and he wouldn't take the blame; he was only going by orders all the time.
"You always say, `Now be quick; now look sharp!' and when I go to the houses
one wants a leg of mutton for an early dinner and I must be back with it
in a quarter of an hour; another cook has forgotten to order the beef;
I must go and fetch it and be back in no time, or the mistress will scold;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: the provincial great man.
"Lousteau, I want a word with you," said Finot; "but I shall see you
again later, at the theatre.--Dauriat, I will take your offer, but on
conditions. Let us step into your office."
"Come in, my boy," answered Dauriat, allowing Finot to pass before
him. Then, intimating to some ten persons still waiting for him that
he was engaged, he likewise was about to disappear when Lucien
impatiently stopped him.
"You are keeping my manuscript. When shall I have an answer?"
"Oh, come back in three or four days, my little poet, and we will
see."
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