| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: no need of private. Yet in his acts he was not constant to his
doctrine, but sometimes out of ambition, and sometimes out of
private pique, he let himself be carried away; and particularly in
this case of the Thebans, he not only saved Phoebidas, but
persuaded the Lacedaemonians to take the fault upon themselves, and
to retain the Cadmea, putting a garrison into it, and to put the
government of Thebes into the hands of Archias and Leontidas, who
had been betrayers of the castle to them.
This excited strong suspicion that what Phoebidas did was by
Agesilaus's order, which was corroborated by after occurrences.
For when the Thebans had expelled the garrison, and asserted their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: As even better than we are.
Every glorious sight above us,
Every pleasant sight beneath,
We'll connect with those that love us,
Whom we truly love till death!
In the evening, when we're sitting
By the fire, perchance alone,
Then shall heart with warm heart meeting,
Give responsive tone for tone.
We can burst the bonds which chain us,
Which cold human hands have wrought,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: men's knowledge. They failed to attract the atten-
tion of a lonely whaler, and very soon the edge of
the polar ice-cap rose from the sea and closed the
southern horizon like a wall. One morning they
were alarmed by finding themselves floating
amongst detached pieces of ice. But the fear of
sinking passed away like their vigour, like their
hopes; the shocks of the floes knocking against the
ship's side could not rouse them from their apathy:
and the Borgmester Dahl drifted out again un-
harmed into open water. They hardly noticed
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