| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: REIGNIER.
I think by some odd gimmors or device
Their arms are set like clocks, still to strike on;
Else ne'er could they hold out so as they do.
By my consent, we'll even let them alone.
ALENCON.
Be it so.
[Enter the Bastard of Orleans.]
BASTARD.
Where's the Prince Dauphin? I have news for him.
CHARLES.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: from Themselves and their Frivolity.
I will coax the first cheque out of Papa this very
evening! It may take some management and jolly-
ing, but--well, Papa is EASY!
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
WE'RE taking up the House Beautiful -- our
Little Group of Serious Thinkers, you
know -- for we've decided that Environ-
ment has more effect on personality than Heredity.
Interior decoration is the greatest of the arts --
don't you think? -- because it furnishes the proper
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: present day succeed in making many converts from the more
venerable ecclesiasticism. The latter offers a so much richer
pasturage and shade to the fancy, has so many cells with so many
different kinds of honey, is so indulgent in its multiform
appeals to human nature, that Protestantism will always show to
Catholic eyes the almshouse physiognomy. The bitter negativity
of it is to the Catholic mind incomprehensible. To intellectual
Catholics many of the antiquated beliefs and practices to which
the Church gives countenance are, if taken literally, as childish
as they are to Protestants. But they are childish in the
pleasing sense of "childlike"--innocent and amiable, and worthy
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