| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: husband have put up in exact order all things that have been,
up to this moment."
"Not up to this moment, Professor," she said impulsively,
"but up to this morning."
"But why not up to now? We have seen hitherto how good light
all the little things have made. We have told our secrets,
and yet no one who has told is the worse for it."
Mrs. Harker began to blush, and taking a paper from
her pockets, she said, "Dr. Van Helsing, will you read this,
and tell me if it must go in. It is my record of today.
I too have seen the need of putting down at present everything,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: Whether from a desire not to disappoint little John Charles, for
some reason or other the next two or three years of Peace's
career would seem to have been spent in an endeavour to earn an
honest living by picture framing, a trade in which Peace,
with that skill he displayed in whatever he turned his hand to,
was remarkably proficient. In Sheffield his children attended
the Sunday School. Though he never went to church himself, he
was an avowed believer in both God and the devil. As he said,
however, that he feared neither, no great reliance could be
placed on the restraining force of such a belief to a man of
Peace's daring spirit. There was only too good reason to fear
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. Would that be an ignoble
life?'
Such, Phaedrus--and I speak not only to you, but to all of you--were the
words of Diotima; and I am persuaded of their truth. And being persuaded
of them, I try to persuade others, that in the attainment of this end human
nature will not easily find a helper better than love: And therefore,
also, I say that every man ought to honour him as I myself honour him, and
walk in his ways, and exhort others to do the same, and praise the power
and spirit of love according to the measure of my ability now and ever.
The words which I have spoken, you, Phaedrus, may call an encomium of love,
or anything else which you please.
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