| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death, and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.
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Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: Lady Ashton contrived to possess herself of such a complete
command of all who were placed around her daughter, that, if
fact, no leaguered fortress was ever more completely blockaded;
while, at the same time, to all outward appearance Miss Ashton
lay under no restriction. The verge of her parents' domains
became, in respect to her, like the viewless and enchanted line
drawn around a fairy castle, where nothing unpermitted can either
enter from without or escape from within. Thus every letter, in
which Ravenswood conveyed to Lucy Ashton the indispensable
reasons which detained him abroad, and more than one note which
poor Lucy had addressed to him through what she thought a secure
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: We lay in our cell for many days.
The door opened twice each day,
once for the men who brought us
bread and water, and once for the Judges.
Many Judges came to our cell,
first the humblest and then the
most honored Judges of the City.
They stood before us in their white togas,
and they asked:
"Are you ready to speak?"
But we shook our head, lying before
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