| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: "I hardly know. I never much thought about it.
Something between both, I think. Brown--not fair,
and--and not very dark."
"Very well, Catherine. That is exactly he. I have
not forgot your description of Mr. Tilney--'a brown skin,
with dark eyes, and rather dark hair.' Well, my taste
is different. I prefer light eyes, and as to complexion--do
you know--I like a sallow better than any other.
You must not betray me, if you should ever meet with one
of your acquaintance answering that description."
"Betray you! What do you mean?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: and wanting in no virtue, whether justice, or temperance, or holiness? He
would possess them all, and he would know which were dangers and which were
not, and guard against them whether they were supernatural or natural; and
he would provide the good, as he would know how to deal both with gods or
men.
NICIAS: I think, Socrates, that there is a great deal of truth in what you
say.
SOCRATES: But then, Nicias, courage, according to this new definition of
yours, instead of being a part of virtue only, will be all virtue?
NICIAS: It would seem so.
SOCRATES: But we were saying that courage is one of the parts of virtue?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: for the land, and by-and-by three palms would appear
on the sky, tall and slim, and with their disheveled heads
in a bunch, as if in confidential criticism of the dark
mangroves. The Sofala would be headed towards the
somber strip of the coast, which at a given moment, as
the ship closed with it obliquely, would show several
clean shining fractures--the brimful estuary of a river.
Then on through a brown liquid, three parts water and
one part black earth, on and on between the low shores,
three parts black earth and one part brackish water, the
Sofala would plow her way up-stream, as she had
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