| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Of grief and blushes, aptly understood
In bloodless white and the encrimson'd mood;
Effects of terror and dear modesty,
Encamp'd in hearts, but fighting outwardly.
'And, lo! behold these talents of their hair,
With twisted metal amorously empleach'd,
I have receiv'd from many a several fair,
(Their kind acceptance weepingly beseech'd,)
With the annexions of fair gems enrich'd,
And deep-brain'd sonnets that did amplify
Each stone's dear nature, worth, and quality.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: approbation--the desire for the love and respect of our fellow-
men. That must not be excluded from the list of heroic motives.
I know that it is, or may be proved to be, by victorious analysis,
an emotion common to us and the lower animals. And yet no man
excludes it less than that true hero, St. Paul.
If those brave Spartans, if those brave Germans, of whom I spoke
just now, knew that their memories would be wept over and
worshipped by brave men and fair women, and that their names would
become watchwords to children in their fatherland, what is that to
us, save that it should make us rejoice, if we be truly human,
that they had that thought with them in their last moments to make
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and
against the help of them that work iniquity.
ISA 31:3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses
flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he
that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they
all shall fail together.
ISA 31:4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and
the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is
called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor
abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come
down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
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