| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: desperately want to prevent her marrying Owen Leath. He
tried to get away from the feeling, to isolate and
exteriorize it sufficiently to see what motives it was made
of; but it remained a mere blind motion of his blood, the
instinctive recoil from the thing that no amount of arguing
can make "straight." His tramp, prolonged as it was, carried
him no nearer to enlightenment; and after trudging through
two or three sallow mud-stained villages he turned about and
wearily made his way back to Givre. As he walked up the
black avenue, making for the lights that twinkled through
its pitching branches, he had a sudden realisation of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: I cannot sum vp some of halfe my wealth
Fri. Come, come with me, & we will make short worke,
For by your leaues, you shall not stay alone,
Till holy Church incorporate two in one.
Enter Mercutio, Benuolio, and men.
Ben. I pray thee good Mercutio lets retire,
The day is hot, the Capulets abroad:
And if we meet, we shal not scape a brawle, for now these
hot dayes, is the mad blood stirring
Mer. Thou art like one of these fellowes, that when he
enters the confines of a Tauerne, claps me his Sword vpon
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: disregarded." See Dindorf, ad loc.; Sturz, "Lex. Xen." {Estia}.
[6] See Plut. "Ages." 30 (Clough, iv. 36); "Hell." VI. iv. 16.
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That too was a happy enactment, in my opinion, by which Lycurgus
provided for the continual cultivation of virtue, even to old age. By
fixing[1] the election to the council of elders[2] as a last ordeal at
the goal of life, he made it impossible for a high standard of
virtuous living to be disregarded even in old age. (So, too, it is
worthy of admiration in him that he lent his helping hand to virtuous
old age.[3] Thus, by making the elders sole arbiters in the trial for
life, he contrived to charge old age with a greater weight of honour
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