| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: between them; and if one of the twain outrages the other, then fight
the party that has committed the outrage until it return to God's
bidding; and if it do return then make peace between them with equity,
and be just; verily, God loves the just.
The believers are but brothers, so make peace between your two
brethren and fear God, haply ye may obtain mercy!
O ye who believe! let not one class ridicule another who are
perchance better than they; nor let women ridicule other women who are
perchance better than they; and do not defame each other, nor call
each other bad names-an ill name is iniquity after faith!
O ye who believe! carefully avoid suspicion; verily, some
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: likely.'
'It's proved,' said Davis bluntly.
'Suppose it was?' said Herrick. 'Suppose that was all so, and
he had these pearls--a ten years' collection of them?--Suppose
he had? There's my question.'
The captain drummed with his thick hands on the board in
front of him; he looked steadily in Herrick's face, and Herrick
as steadily looked upon the table and the pattering fingers;
there was a gentle oscillation of the anchored ship, and a big
patch of sunlight travelled to and fro between the one and the
other.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: attributed his success to his intelligence and his integrity.
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The Restoration made Cesar a personage, and the turmoil of political
crises naturally lessened his recollection of these domestic
misadventures. The constancy of his royalist opinions (to which he had
become exceedingly indifferent since his wound, though he remained
faithful to them out of decency) and the memory of his devotion in
Vendemiaire won him very high patronage, precisely because he had
asked for none. He was appointed major in the National Guard, although
he was utterly incapable of giving the word of command. In 1815
Napoleon, always his enemy, dismissed him. During the Hundred Days
Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau |
