| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: O heavenly God!
QUEEN.
How fares my gracious lord?
SUFFOLK.
Comfort, my sovereign! gracious Henry, comfort!
KING.
What, doth my Lord of Suffolk comfort me?
Came he right now to sing a raven's note
Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers,
And thinks he that the chirping of a wren,
By crying comfort from a hollow breast,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: "The brother of Lieven d'Herde is ruined."
"Ah!"
After giving vent to that exclamation, the old man covered his knee
with the skirt of his dalmatian, a species of robe made of black
velvet, open in front, with large sleeves and no collar, the sumptuous
material being defaced and shiny. These remains of a magnificent
costume, formerly worn by him as president of the tribunal of the
Parchons, functions which had won him the enmity of the Duke of
Burgundy, was now a mere rag.
Philippe was not cold; he perspired in his harness, dreading further
questions. Until then the brief information obtained that morning from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: of men--
But silent and watchful and hidden forever over
all
The masters brood of those Mills that "grind
exceeding small."
And it needs no occult art nor magic to foreshow
That a people who sow defeat they will reap the
thing they sow.
"SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI"
CONQUERORS leonine, lordly,
Princes and vaunting kings,
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