| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: journey is!
None wrangle concerning the signs of God but those who misbelieve;
then let not their going to and fro in the cities deceive thee.
The people of Noah before them called the prophets liars; and the
confederates after them; and every nation schemed against their
Apostle to catch him. And they wrangled with falsehood that they might
refute the truth thereby, but I seized them, and how was my
punishment!
Thus was the sentence of thy Lord due against those who misbelieved,
that they are the fellows of the Fire!
Those who bear the throne and those around it celebrate the praise
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: all pleased and pained, as you were saying, in nearly equal degree; but are
the cowards more pleased and pained than the brave?
CALLICLES: Yes.
SOCRATES: But surely the wise and brave are the good, and the foolish and
the cowardly are the bad?
CALLICLES: Yes.
SOCRATES: Then the good and the bad are pleased and pained in a nearly
equal degree?
CALLICLES: Yes.
SOCRATES: Then are the good and bad good and bad in a nearly equal degree,
or have the bad the advantage both in good and evil? (i.e. in having more
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: been able to understand it, in a very few words.
"Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in
Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a
Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned
some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he
held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was
also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the
colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to
settle down they should do so as near each other as possible.
Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his
tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
