| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: influence on Eastern people; they differ from them to too great
an extent.
"The dual action of the past and of reciprocal imitation renders,
in the long run, all the men of the same country and the same
period so alike that even in the case of individuals who would
seem destined to escape this double influence, such as
philosophers, learned men, and men of letters, thought and style
have a family air which enables the age to which they belong to
be immediately recognised. It is not necessary to talk for long
with an individual to attain to a thorough knowledge of what he
reads, of his habitual occupations, and of the surroundings amid
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: health to the bones.
PRO 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end
thereof are the ways of death.
PRO 16:26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth
craveth it of him.
PRO 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a
burning fire.
PRO 16:28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief
friends.
PRO 16:29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into
the way that is not good.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: Papers. For the general account of Don Carlos's illness, and of the
miraculous agencies by which his cure was said to have been
effected, the general reader should consult Miss Frere's "Biography
of Elizabeth of Valois," vol. i. pp. 307-19.
{12} In justice to poor Doctor Olivarez, it must be said that,
while he allows all force to the intercession of the Virgin and of
Fray Diego, and of "many just persons," he cannot allow that there
was any "miracle properly so called," because the prince was cured
according to "natural order," and by "experimental remedies" of the
physicians.
{13} This lecture was given at Cambridge in 1869, and has not had
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