| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: [Stabbing him.]
YORK.
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God!
My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.
[Dies.]
QUEEN MARGARET.
Off with his head, and set it on York gates;
So York may overlook the town of York.
[Flourish. Exeunt.]
ACT II.
SCENE I. A plain near Mortimer's Cross in Herefordshire.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: passion; but that, like one who should leave the hearth upon
a winter's night, his temperature soon fell when he was out
of sight, and in a word, though he could share the symptoms,
that he had never shared the disease. At the same time, amid
the fustian of the letters there are forcible and true
expressions, and the love verses that he wrote upon Clarinda
are among the most moving in the language.
We are approaching the solution. In mid-winter, Jean, once
more in the family way, was turned out of doors by her
family; and Burns had her received and cared for in the house
of a friend. For he remained to the last imperfect in his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: and unsatisfactory. The existence of true opinion is proved by the
rhetoric of the law courts, which cannot give knowledge, but may give true
opinion. The rhetorician cannot put the judge or juror in possession of
all the facts which prove an act of violence, but he may truly persuade
them of the commission of such an act. Here the idea of true opinion seems
to be a right conclusion from imperfect knowledge. But the correctness of
such an opinion will be purely accidental; and is really the effect of one
man, who has the means of knowing, persuading another who has not. Plato
would have done better if he had said that true opinion was a contradiction
in terms.
Assuming the distinction between knowledge and opinion, Theaetetus, in
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