| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: She was tramp-trampin' in the cla'es, croonin' to hersel'; and eh!
Gude guide us, but it was a fearsome face. Whiles she sang louder,
but there was nae man born o' woman that could tell the words o'
her sang; an' whiles she lookit side-lang doun, but there was
naething there for her to look at. There gaed a scunner through
the flesh upon his banes; and that was Heeven's advertisement. But
Mr. Soulis just blamed himsel', he said, to think sae ill of a
puir, auld afflicted wife that hadnae a freend forbye himsel'; an'
he put up a bit prayer for him and her, an' drank a little caller
water - for his heart rose again the meat - an' gaed up to his
naked bed in the gloaming.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: Could satisfy our Duchess on that point.
DUCHESS
And Orvieto?
DUKE
[yawning]
I cannot now recall
Why I did not surrender Orvieto
According to the word of my contract.
Maybe it was because I did not choose.
[Goes over to the DUCHESS.]
Why look you, Madam, you are here alone;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: Then said Ioasaph to the king, "To honour one's father, and to
obey his commands, and to serve him with good will and affection
is taught us by the Lord of us all, who hath implanted in our
hearts this natural affection. But, when loving devotion to our
parents bringeth our soul into peril, and separateth her from her
Maker, then we are commanded, at all costs, to cut it out, and,
on no account, to yield to them that would depart us from God,
but to hate and avoid them, even if it be our father that issueth
the abominable command, or our mother, or our king, or the master
of our very life. Wherefore it is impossible for me, out of
devotion to my father, to forfeit God. So, prithee, trouble not
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