| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: With full pretence to seek thine overthrow.
What have I done, that thou shouldst scorn me thus?
What have I said, that thou shouldst me reject?
Have I been disobedient to thy words?
Have I bewrayed thy Arcane secrecy?
Have I dishonoured thy marriage bed
With filthy crimes, or with lascivious lusts?
Nay, it is thou that hast dishonoured it:
Thy filthy minds, o'ercome with filthy lusts,
Yieldeth unto affections filthy darts.
Unkind, thou wrongst thy first and truest feer;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: elusive, the lad dodged around the struggling savage. One, two, three hard
blows staggered Silvertip, and a fourth, delivered with the force of Joe's
powerful arm, caught the Indian when he was off his balance, and felled him,
battered and bloody, on the grass. The surrounding Indians looked down at the
vanquished Shawnee, expressing their approval in characteristic grunts.
With Lance prancing proudly, and Mose leaping lovingly beside him, Joe walked
back to his lodge. Whispering Winds sprang to meet him with joyful face. She
had feared the outcome of trouble with the Shawnee, but no queen ever bestowed
upon returning victorious lord a loftier look of pride, a sweeter glance of
love, than the Indian maiden bent upon her lover.
Whispering Winds informed Joe that an important council was to be held that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: That is evident.
Then, I said, in all bodily actions, not quietness, but the greatest
agility and quickness, is noblest and best?
Yes, certainly.
And is temperance a good?
Yes.
Then, in reference to the body, not quietness, but quickness will be the
higher degree of temperance, if temperance is a good?
True, he said.
And which, I said, is better--facility in learning, or difficulty in
learning?
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