| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: CHARLES.
Our men, with open mouths and staring eyes,
Look on each other, as they did attend
Each other's words, and yet no creature speaks;
A tongue-tied fear hath made a midnight hour,
And speeches sleep through all the waking regions.
KING JOHN.
But now the pompous Sun, in all his pride,
Looked through his golden coach upon the world,
And, on a sudden, hath he hid himself,
That now the under earth is as a grave,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: The levin of its love elate,
Shy brides' pearls, flushed and delicate,
Sea-colored lapis lazuli,
Sardonyx and chalcedony,
Enkindling diamond, candid gold,
Red rubies and red garnets bold:
And all their humors should be blent
In one intolerable blaze,
Barbaric, fierce, and opulent,
To dazzle him that dared to gaze!
Alack-a-day for poverty:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: language as coarse and violent as their own. The coarseness and
violence of those days seem incredible to us now; and, indeed,
Paracelsus, as he confessed himself, was, though of gentle blood,
rough and unpolished; and utterly, as one can see from his writings,
unable to give and take, to conciliate--perhaps to pardon. He
looked impatiently on these men who were (not unreasonably) opposing
novelties which they could not understand, as enemies of God, who
were balking him in his grand plan for regenerating science and
alleviating the woes of humanity, and he outraged their prejudices
instead of soothing them.
Soon they had their revenge. Ugly stories were whispered about.
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