| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: formed of commissioned officers. Butzow was among them.
He, too, out of the corner of his eye watched the advancing
figure. Suddenly he noted the limp, and gave a little in-
voluntary gasp. He looked at the Princess Emma, and saw
her eyes suddenly widen with consternation.
Slowly at first, and then in a sudden tidal wave of mem-
ory, Butzow's story of the fight in the courtyard at Blentz
came back to her.
"I saw but little of Mr. Custer," he had said. "He was
slightly wounded in the left leg. The king was wounded in
the breast." But Lieutenant Butzow had not known the true
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: 'Some of us have fathers and mothers still living, and we would urge them,
if, as is likely, we shall die, to bear the calamity as lightly as
possible, and not to condole with one another; for they have sorrows
enough, and will not need any one to stir them up. While we gently heal
their wounds, let us remind them that the Gods have heard the chief part of
their prayers; for they prayed, not that their children might live for
ever, but that they might be brave and renowned. And this, which is the
greatest good, they have attained. A mortal man cannot expect to have
everything in his own life turning out according to his will; and they, if
they bear their misfortunes bravely, will be truly deemed brave fathers of
the brave. But if they give way to their sorrows, either they will be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: call to battle, whether it be battered tin or gilded silver, which boots?
Is it not the call? What and if I should send my message by a woman or a
child: shall truth be less truth because the bearer is despised? Is it
the mouth that speaks or the word that is spoken which is eternal?
Nevertheless, if you will have it so, go, and say, 'I, Peter Halket, sinner
among you all, who have desired women and gold, who have loved myself and
hated my fellow, I--'" The stranger looked down at him, and placed his
hand gently on his head. "Peter Simon Halket," he said, "a harder task I
give you than any which has been laid upon you. In that small spot where
alone on earth your will rules, bring there into being the kingdom today.
Love your enemies; do good to them that hate you. Walk ever forward,
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