| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues
Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.
These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. Think at last
We have not reached conclusion, when I
Stiffen in a rented house. Think at last
I have not made this show purposelessly
And it is not by any concitation
Of the backward devils.
I would meet you upon this honestly.
I that was near your heart was removed therefrom
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: lives, thrust through, as they jostled at the foot of the steps;
others again were literally trampled under one another's feet and
suffocated.
[10] Or, "plunged from its summit into perdition." See Thuc. ii. 4.
The Lacedaemonians had no difficulty in the choice of victims; for at
that instant a work was assigned to them to do,[11] such as they could
hardly have hoped or prayed for. To find delivered into their hands a
mob of helpless enemies, in an ecstasy of terror, presenting their
unarmed sides in such sort that none turned to defend himself, but
each victim rather seemed to contribute what he could towards his own
destruction--if that was not divine interposition, I know now what to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: and children well, and called upon me - with sugar. Colonel Drake,
Seventh Cavalry, said some pleasant things; Mrs. Drake was very
complimentary; also Captain and Mrs. Marsh, Company B, Seventh
Cavalry; also the Chaplain, who is always kind and pleasant to me,
because I kicked the lungs out of a trader once. It was Tommy
Drake and Fanny Marsh that furnished the sugar - nice children, the
nicest at the post, I think.
That poor orphan child is on her way from France - everybody is
full of the subject. Her father was General Alison's brother;
married a beautiful young Spanish lady ten years ago, and has never
been in America since. They lived in Spain a year or two, then
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