| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: Sit thou still when kings are arming,
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens,
Speak not when the people listens,
Stop thine ear against the singer,
From the red gold keep they finger,
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,
Easy live and quiet die."
The sounds ceased, and the Keeper entered his daughter's
apartment.
The words she had chosen seemed particularly adapted to her
character; for Lucy Ashton's exquisitely beautiful, yet somewhat
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: intended paying you a visit."
"I have had several visitors lately," said Cleggett nonchalantly,
"and I think at least two of them can make no claim that they
were not warmly received."
"Yes?" said Loge. But if Cleggett's meaning reached him he was
too cool a hand to show it. He persisted in his affectation of a
businesslike air. "Am I right in thinking that you have bought
the boat?"
"You are."
"To come to the point," said Loge, "I want to buy her from you.
What will you take for her?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: tempest.
Corn. Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm.
Reg. This house is little; the old man and 's people
Cannot be well bestow'd.
Gon. 'Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest
And must needs taste his folly.
Reg. For his particular, I'll receive him gladly,
But not one follower.
Gon. So am I purpos'd.
Where is my Lord of Gloucester?
Corn. Followed the old man forth.
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