| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: request him to reserve his advice till it was asked."
"And being on these terms, you are going to join the very army in
which my brother Falconer is now serving?"
"No man knows the path of honour better than Major Falconer,"
said Sir Philip. "An aspirant after fame, like me, cannot choose
a better guide than his footsteps."
Lady Bothwell rose and went to the window, the tears gushing from
her eyes.
"And this heartless raillery," she said, "is all the
consideration that is to be given to our apprehensions of a
quarrel which may bring on the most terrible consequences? Good
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: Not more certain is that rising than the coming of that day. And I say to
you that even here, in the land where now we stand, where today the cries
of the wounded and the curses of revenge ring in the air; even here, in
this land where man creeps on his belly to wound his fellow in the dark,
and where an acre of gold is worth a thousand souls, and a reef of shining
dirt is worth half a people, and the vultures are heavy with man's flesh--
even here that day shall come. I tell you, Peter Simon Halket, that here
on the spot where now we stand shall be raised a temple. Man shall not
gather in it to worship that which divides; but they shall stand in it
shoulder to shoulder, white man with black, and the stranger with the
inhabitant of the land; and the place shall be holy; for men shall say,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: 'O my sons! go and enquire concerning Joseph and his brother, and
despair not of God's comfort; for, verily, none need despair of
God's comfort save a misbelieving people!'
And when they entered in unto him they said, 'O prince! distress has
touched both us and our families, and we have brought trifling
chattels. So give us full measure and bestow upon us in charity;
verily, God rewards the charitable.'
He said, 'Do ye know what ye did with Joseph and his brother,
while ye were ignorant?'
They said, 'Art thou then indeed Joseph?' He said, 'I am Joseph, and
this is my brother; God has been gracious towards us. Verily, whoso
The Koran |
