| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: And makes her absence valiant, not her might.
'O pardon me, in that my boast is true:
The accident which brought me to her eye,
Upon the moment did her force subdue,
And now she would the caged cloister fly:
Religious love put out religion's eye:
Not to be tempted, would she be immur'd,
And now, to tempt all, liberty procur'd.
'How mighty then you are, O hear me tell!
The broken bosoms that to me belong
Have emptied all their fountains in my well,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: serpent, who is not half so likely to snap me up at one
mouthful as I am to cut off his ugly head, and strip the skin
from his body. At all events, turn back who may, I will never
see Greece again, unless I carry with me the Golden Fleece."
"We will none of us turn back!" cried his nine and forty brave
comrades. "Let us get on board the galley this instant; and if
the dragon is to make a breakfast of us, much good may it do
him."
And Orpheus (whose custom it was to set everything to music)
began to harp and sing most gloriously, and made every mother's
son of them feel as if nothing in this world were so delectable
Tanglewood Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: not let us begone without drawing all men's eyes on us?"
"Sayest thou?" said Lambourne. "Thou art deceived now--no man
shall see you, an I give the word.--By heavens, masters, an any
one dare to look on this old gentleman, I will slash the eyes out
of his head with my poniard!--So sit down, old friend, and be
merry; these are mine ingles--mine ancient inmates, and will
betray no man."
"Had you not better withdraw to a private apartment, nephew?"
said Giles Gosling. "You speak strange matter," he added, "and
there be intelligencers everywhere."
"I care not for them," said the magnanimous Michael--
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