| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: see things which other free men desire to see; but he lives in his
hole like a woman hidden in the house, and is jealous of any other
citizen who goes into foreign parts and sees things of interest"
(Jowett).
Perhaps you will retort: "Why should he trouble to go abroad to seek
for such things? They are sure to come to him, although he stops at
home." Yes, Simonides, that is so far true; a small percentage of them
no doubt will, and this scant moiety will be sold at so high a price
to the despotic monarch, that the exhibitor of the merest trifle looks
to receive from the imperial pocket, within the briefest interval, ten
times more than he can hope to win from all the rest of mankind in a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: His mercy choked me. Gone, my lord the King,
My own true lord! how dare I call him mine?
The shadow of another cleaves to me,
And makes me one pollution: he, the King,
Called me polluted: shall I kill myself?
What help in that? I cannot kill my sin,
If soul be soul; nor can I kill my shame;
No, nor by living can I live it down.
The days will grow to weeks, the weeks to months
The months will add themselves and make the years,
The years will roll into the centuries,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: This Gloster should be quickly rid the world,
To rid us from the fear we have of him.
CARDINAL.
That he should die is worthy policy,
But yet we want a colour for his death,
'T is meet he be condemn'd by course of law.
SUFFOLK.
But, in my mind, that were no policy.
The king will labour still to save his life;
The commons haply rise to save his life,
And yet we have but trivial argument,
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