| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: "The more you get into his writings the less you'll want to, and
you'll be immensely sustained by the thought of the good you're
doing him."
She looked at me without resentment or spite, and at the truth I
had put before her with candour, credulity, pity. I was afterwards
happy to remember that she must have gathered from my face the
liveliness of my interest in herself. "I think I see what you
mean."
"Oh I express it badly, but I should be delighted if you'd let me
come to see you - to explain it better."
She made no response to this, and her thoughtful eyes fell on the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Like the white souls of the saints.
"The saints! Ah, have they grown
Forgetful of their own?
Are they asleep, or dead,
That open to the sky
Their ruined Missions lie,
No longer tenanted?
"Oh, bring us back once more
The vanished days of yore,
When the world with faith was filled;
Bring back the fervid zeal,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: in this field were carried out. At the same time it was decided
that the armouring should be effected upon lines analogous to
that prevailing in warship engineering. The craft should not
only be provided with defensive but also with aggressive
armament. This decision was not viewed with general approbation.
It was pointed out that questions of weight would arise,
especially in relation to the speed of the machine. Increased
weight, unless it were accompanied by a proportionate
augmentation of power in the motor, would react against the
efficiency and utility of the machine, would appreciably reduce
its speed, and would affect its climbing powers very adversely.
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