| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: And cling to faith and honor still;
To do my best, and let that stand
The record of my brain and hand;
And then, should failure come to me,
Still work and hope for victory.
To have no secret place wherein
I stoop unseen to shame or sin;
To be the same when I'm alone
As when my every deed is known;
To live undaunted, unafraid
Of any step that I have made;
A Heap O' Livin' |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: And, like a thirsty tyger, suckst her blood.
AUDLEY.
You peers of France, why do you follow him
That is so prodigal to spend your lives?
CHARLES.
Whom should they follow, aged impotent,
But he that is their true borne sovereign?
KING EDWARD.
Obraidst thou him, because within his face
Time hath ingraved deep characters of age?
Know, these grave scholars of experience,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: fieri velit edocet. Qui ubi pro perfuga ad eos venit, timorem Romanorum
proponit, quibus angustiis ipse Caesar a Venetis prematur docet, eque
longius abesse quin proxima nocte Sabinus clam ex castris exercitum educat
et ad Caesarem auxilii ferendi causa proficiscatur. Quod ubi auditum est,
conclamant omnes occasionem negotii bene gerendi amittendam non esse: ad
castra iri oportere. Multae res ad hoc consilium Gallos hortabantur:
superiorum dierum Sabini cunctatio, perfugae confirmatio, inopia
cibariorum, cui rei paum diligenter ab iis erat provisum, spes Venetici
belli, et quod fere libenter. homines id quod volunt credunt. His rebus
adducti non prius Viridovicem reliquosque duces ex concilio dimittunt quam
ab iis sit concessum arma uti capiant et ad castra contendant. Qua re
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