| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: too, only--only--"
"Only I didn't give the word." David Payne laughed and watched
the Indian girl disappearing into the cabin.
"Oh, I understand, Dave, and had I been in your place I'd most
probably have done the same. But I have come--now."
"Then come a little bit farther, into the cabin and get something
to eat," he said genially, ignoring or missing the feminine
suggestion of appeal in her voice. "And you must be tired too.
Which way are you travelling? Up? Then you wintered in Dawson,
or came in on the last ice. Your camp?" He glanced at the
voyageurs circled about the fire in the open, and held back the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: reflects that he has less himself than other monarchs. These he holds
to be his true antagonists; these are his rivals in the race for
wealth.
[12] Or, "It gives no pleasure to the athlete to win victories over
amateurs." See "Mem." III. viii. 7.
[13] Or, "each time it is brought home to him that," etc.
Nor does the tyrant attain the object of his heart's desire more
quickly than do humbler mortals theirs. For consider, what are their
objects of ambition? The private citizen has set his heart, it may be,
on a house, a farm, a servant. The tyrant hankers after cities, or
wide territory, or harbours, or formidable citadels, things far more
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied
To th' orbed earth; sometimes they do extend
Their view right on; anon their gazes lend
To every place at once, and nowhere fix'd,
The mind and sight distractedly commix'd.
Her hair, nor loose nor tied in formal plat,
Proclaim'd in her a careless hand of pride;
For some, untuck'd, descended her sheav'd hat,
Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside;
Some in her threaden fillet still did bide,
And, true to bondage, would not break from thence,
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