| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: but only a mirror of round metal set on an altar of stone.
'And I said to the priest, "Where is the god?"
'And he answered me: "There is no god but this mirror that thou
seest, for this is the Mirror of Wisdom. And it reflecteth all
things that are in heaven and on earth, save only the face of him
who looketh into it. This it reflecteth not, so that he who
looketh into it may be wise. Many other mirrors are there, but
they are mirrors of Opinion. This only is the Mirror of Wisdom.
And they who possess this mirror know everything, nor is there
anything hidden from them. And they who possess it not have not
Wisdom. Therefore is it the god, and we worship it." And I looked
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: officious, but that she partly made up for by deliberately affixing
the stamps and by waiting till she had done so to give change. She
had, for so much coolness, the strength that she considered she
knew all about Miss Dolman.
"Yes--paid." She saw all sorts of things in this reply, even to a
small suppressed start of surprise at so correct an assumption;
even to an attempt the next minute at a fresh air of detachment.
"How much, with the answer?" The calculation was not abstruse, but
our intense observer required a moment more to make it, and this
gave her ladyship time for a second thought. "Oh just wait!" The
white begemmed hand bared to write rose in sudden nervousness to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by
the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil
shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash
shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said
three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The
judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in
the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on
to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds;
to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow,
and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just
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