| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: true faith with him, and would have been a better friend to him,
sir, what is more, than ever he was to himself.
Sir Richard.--Alas! that might easily be.
Yeo.--I think, sir, and will make good against any man, that Mr.
Oxenham was a noble and valiant gentleman; true of his word, stout
of his sword, skilful by sea and land, and worthy to have been Lord
High Admiral of England (saving your worship's presence), but that
through two great sins, wrath and avarice, he was cast away
miserably or ever his soul was brought to the knowledge of the
truth. Ah, sir, he was a captain worth sailing under!
And Yeo heaved a deep sigh.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: Come, now your promise
Oth. What promise, Chucke?
Des. I haue sent to bid Cassio come speake with you
Oth. I haue a salt and sorry Rhewme offends me:
Lend me thy Handkerchiefe
Des. Heere my Lord
Oth. That which I gaue you
Des. I haue it not about me
Oth. Not?
Des. No indeed, my Lord
Oth. That's a fault: That Handkerchiefe
Othello |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: to you every hope; but I demand of you a delay of three or four
years, because it will take me that time to find out if you are
among the number of those unfortunate ones whom I pity with all
my heart, for whom the disease is without mercy; because during
that time you will be dangerous to your wife and to your
children. The children I have not yet mentioned to you."
Here the doctor's voice trembled slightly. He spoke with moving
eloquence. "Come, sir, you are an honest man; you are too young
for such things not to move you; you are not insensible to duty.
It is impossible that I shan't be able to find a way to your
heart, that I shan't be able to make you obey me. My emotion in
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