| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: have brought it about that he should be king. Or had things fallen out
as I planned, and the Lily maid been brought to Dingaan, and
Umslopogaas grew great in his sight, then, perhaps, I could have
brought it about. But all things had gone wrong. The Lily was none
other than Nada; and how could Umslopogaas give Nada, whom he thought
his sister, and who was my daughter, to Dingaan against her will?
Also, because of Nada, Dingaan and Umslopogaas were now at bitter
enmity, and for this same cause I was disgraced and a fugitive, and my
counsels would no longer be heard in the ear of the king.
So everything must be begun afresh: and as I walked with the impi
towards the Ghost Mountain, I thought much and often of the manner in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: form in general is his pursuit, how foolish would he be not to recognize
that the beauty in every form is and the same! And when he perceives this
he will abate his violent love of the one, which he will despise and deem a
small thing, and will become a lover of all beautiful forms; in the next
stage he will consider that the beauty of the mind is more honourable than
the beauty of the outward form. So that if a virtuous soul have but a
little comeliness, he will be content to love and tend him, and will search
out and bring to the birth thoughts which may improve the young, until he
is compelled to contemplate and see the beauty of institutions and laws,
and to understand that the beauty of them all is of one family, and that
personal beauty is a trifle; and after laws and institutions he will go on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: "I need not point out to you," said the young lawyer to Massol, "how
necessary it is to preserve absolute silence as to the little service
requested of you."
"Since it is you who do me the honor of so much confidence," replied
Massol, "allow me to make one observation. This paragraph will give
rise to odious comments on the course of justice----"
"Justice is strong enough to bear them," said the young attache to the
Courts, with the pride of a coming magistrate trained by Monsieur de
Granville.
"Allow me, my dear sir; with two sentences this difficulty may be
avoided."
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