| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: LORD GORING. I can't help it. I always look pleased when I am with
you.
MABEL CHILTERN. [Sadly.] Then I suppose it is my duty to remain
with you?
LORD GORING. Of course it is.
MABEL CHILTERN. Well, my duty is a thing I never do, on principle.
It always depresses me. So I am afraid I must leave you.
LORD GORING. Please don't, Miss Mabel. I have something very
particular to say to you.
MABEL CHILTERN. [Rapturously.] Oh! is it a proposal?
LORD GORING. [Somewhat taken aback.] Well, yes, it is - I am bound
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
CH2 33:2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like
unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before
the children of Israel.
CH2 33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father
had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves,
and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
CH2 33:4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the
LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
CH2 33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
courts of the house of the LORD.
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: his efforts. There is a glory in this fight; man feels a sense of
grandeur. We are robbing no one. From the harsh bosom of the
hills we wring the iron milk that makes us strong. Nature is no
kind mother; she resists with flood and earthquake, drought and
cyclone. Nature is fierce and formidable, but fierce is man's
soul to subdue her. The stubborn earth is iron, but man is iron
too.
CHAPTER XVIII
ON BEING A GOOD GUESSER
The charge which I have been kneading in my furnace has now
"come to nature," the stringy sponge of pure iron is separating
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