| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: SOCRATES: Then the cause and what is subordinate to it in generation are
not the same, but different?
PROTARCHUS: True.
SOCRATES: Did not the things which were generated, and the things out of
which they were generated, furnish all the three classes?
PROTARCHUS: Yes.
SOCRATES: And the creator or cause of them has been satisfactorily proven
to be distinct from them,--and may therefore be called a fourth principle?
PROTARCHUS: So let us call it.
SOCRATES: Quite right; but now, having distinguished the four, I think
that we had better refresh our memories by recapitulating each of them in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: and nothing could be done, so I went around to the back to see
if anything could be gathered from this quarter. The mews
were active, the Piccadilly houses being mostly in occupation.
I asked one or two of the grooms and helpers whom I saw
around if they could tell me anything about the empty house.
One of them said that he heard it had lately been taken,
but he couldn't say from whom. He told me, however, that up
to very lately there had been a notice board of "For Sale"
up, and that perhaps Mitchell, Sons, & Candy the house agents
could tell me something, as he thought he remembered seeing
the name of that firm on the board. I did not wish to seem
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: "You must walk, Stephanie, or we shall all die here."
For all answer the countess tried to drop again upon the snow and
sleep. The aide-de-camp seized a brand from the fire and waved it in
her face.
"We will save her in spite of herself!" cried Philippe, lifting the
countess and placing her in the carriage.
He returned to implore the help of his friend. Together they lifted
the old general, without knowing whether he were dead or alive, and
put him beside his wife. The major then rolled over the men who were
sleeping on his blankets, which he tossed into the carriage, together
with some roasted fragments of his mare.
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