| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: or a roof to cover us, I had strength,--not of mine own--but I
had strength given me to say, The Lord's will be done!--My son,
our peaceful house was last night broken into by moss-troopers,
armed and masked; they have taken and destroyed all, and carried
off our dear Grace. Pray for strength to say, His will be done!"
"Mother! mother! urge me not--I cannot--not now I am a sinful
man, and of a hardened race. Masked armed--Grace carried off!
Gie me my sword, and my father's knapsack--I will have vengeance,
if I should go to the pit of darkness to seek it!"
"O my bairn, my bairn! be patient under the rod. Who knows when
He may lift His hand off from us? Young Earnscliff, Heaven bless
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: words.
Socrates proceeds: We might ask who are our teachers? But a better and
more thorough way of examining the question will be to ask, 'What is
Virtue?'--or rather, to restrict the enquiry to that part of virtue which
is concerned with the use of weapons--'What is Courage?' Laches thinks
that he knows this: (1) 'He is courageous who remains at his post.' But
some nations fight flying, after the manner of Aeneas in Homer; or as the
heavy-armed Spartans also did at the battle of Plataea. (2) Socrates wants
a more general definition, not only of military courage, but of courage of
all sorts, tried both amid pleasures and pains. Laches replies that this
universal courage is endurance. But courage is a good thing, and mere
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: 'What remarks?'
'Those she wrote me--now torn to pieces. Elfride, DID you run
away with a man you loved?--that was the damnable statement. Has
such an accusation life in it--really, truly, Elfride?'
'Yes,' she whispered.
Knight's countenance sank. 'To be married to him?' came huskily
from his lips.
'Yes. Oh, forgive me! I had never seen you, Harry.'
'To London?'
'Yes; but I----'
'Answer my questions; say nothing else, Elfride Did you ever
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