| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: ALGERNON. It is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, a terrible
disappointment to me, but the fact is I have just had a telegram to
say that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again. [Exchanges
glances with JACK.] They seem to think I should be with him.
LADY BRACKNELL. It is very strange. This Mr. Bunbury seems to
suffer from curiously bad health.
ALGERNON. Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.
LADY BRACKNELL. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is
high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to
live or to die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd.
Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
EZE 23:25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal
furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and
thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy
daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
EZE 23:26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away
thy fair jewels.
EZE 23:27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy
whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up
thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
EZE 23:28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: such opposition, we had returned with great loss and little
profit. Wherefore these valiant Irishes, being all put to the
sword, as is usual in such cases, did nevertheless gain immortal
praise and honour; so that, for their sakes, I have always loved
and honoured those of that nation next to my own country of
Scotland."
"A command of Irish," said Menteith, "I think I could almost
promise you, should you be disposed to embrace the royal cause."
"And yet," said Captain Dalgetty, "my second and greatest
difficulty remains behind; for, although I hold it a mean and
sordid thing for a soldado to have nothing in his mouth but pay
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