| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: That is true, he said.
And when men act rightly and advantageously they seem to you to be
temperate?
Yes, he said.
And temperance makes them temperate?
Certainly.
And they who do not act rightly act foolishly, and in acting thus are not
temperate?
I agree, he said.
Then to act foolishly is the opposite of acting temperately?
He assented.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: from the good, and may put the vile, some on the top of the other, and
heap all up together, and put it into hell!- These are those who lose!
Say to those who misbelieve, if they desist they will be forgiven
what is past; but if they return,- the course of those of former
days has passed away.
Fight them then that there should be no sedition, and that the
religion may be wholly God's; but if they desist, then God on what
they do doth look. But if they turn their backs, then know that God is
your Lord; a good Lord is He, and a good help; and know that
whenever ye seize anything as a spoil, to God belongs a fifth thereof,
and to His Apostle, and to kindred and orphans, and the poor and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: "Floyd," she looked him steadily in the eyes, "I am tired of the
whole business. I want to go away. I can't live it out here till
the river breaks. If I try, I'll die. I am sure of it. I want
to quit it all and go away, and I want to do it at once."
She laid her hand in mute appeal upon the back of his, which
turned over and became a prison. Another one, he thought, just
throwing herself at him. Guess it wouldn't hurt Loraine to cool
her feet by the water-hole a little longer.
"Well?" This time from Freda, but softly and anxiously.
"I don't know what to say," he hastened to answer, adding to
himself that it was coming along quicker than he had expected.
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