| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: Will giue him Cable
Othel. Let him do his spight;
My Seruices, which I haue done the Signorie
Shall out-tongue his Complaints. 'Tis yet to know,
Which when I know, that boasting is an Honour,
I shall promulgate. I fetch my life and being,
From Men of Royall Seige. And my demerites
May speake (vnbonnetted) to as proud a Fortune
As this that I haue reach'd. For know Iago,
But that I loue the gentle Desdemona,
I would not my vnhoused free condition
Othello |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: mortal could have thwarted him so easily, and he began to fear he was
dealing--perhaps unawares--with some great magician or sorcerer. That
a fairy should have assumed a mortal form he never once considered,
for such a thing was until then unheard of in the Enchanted Island of
Yew. But with the knowledge that he had met his master, whoever he
might prove to be, and that further attempts upon the stranger's life
might lead to his own undoing, King Terribus decided to adopt a new
line of conduct, hoping to accomplish by stratagem what he could not
do by force. To be sure, there remained his regiment of Giants, the
pride of his kingdom; but Terribus dreaded to meet with another
defeat; and he was not at all sure, after what had happened, that the
The Enchanted Island of Yew |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: a world of steel. How? It puddled the pig-iron until the dross
was out, and the pure metal was bessemered into steel. Now the
task is to purify men as we have purified metals. Men have dross
in their nature. They break under civilization's load. A steel
world is hopeless if men are pig-iron. There is greed and envy
and malice in all of us. But also there is the real metal of
brotherhood. Our task is to puddle out the impurities so that the
true iron can be strong enough to hold our civilization up
forever.
I have been a puddler of iron and I would be a puddler of men.
Out of the best part of the iron I helped build a stronger world.
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