| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: was not me, said Obadiah.--How do I know that? replied my father.
Triumph swam in my father's eyes, at the repartee--the Attic salt brought
water into them--and so Obadiah heard no more about it.
Now let us go back to my brother's death.
Philosophy has a fine saying for every thing.--For Death it has an entire
set; the misery was, they all at once rushed into my father's head, that
'twas difficult to string them together, so as to make any thing of a
consistent show out of them.--He took them as they came.
''Tis an inevitable chance--the first statute in Magna Charta--it is an
everlasting act of parliament, my dear brother,--All must die.
'If my son could not have died, it had been matter of wonder,--not that he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: And in all that concerns either body or soul, swiftness and activity are
clearly better than slowness and quietness?
Clearly they are.
Then temperance is not quietness, nor is the temperate life quiet,--
certainly not upon this view; for the life which is temperate is supposed
to be the good. And of two things, one is true,--either never, or very
seldom, do the quiet actions in life appear to be better than the quick and
energetic ones; or supposing that of the nobler actions, there are as many
quiet, as quick and vehement: still, even if we grant this, temperance
will not be acting quietly any more than acting quickly and energetically,
either in walking or talking or in anything else; nor will the quiet life
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: trusteth in him.
PSA 34:9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them
that fear him.
PSA 34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that
seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
PSA 34:11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear
of the LORD.
PSA 34:12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that
he may see good?
PSA 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
PSA 34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
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