| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Could scape the hail of his all-hurting aim,
Showing fair nature is both kind and tame;
And, veil'd in them, did win whom he would maim:
Against the thing he sought he would exclaim;
When he most burned in heart-wish'd luxury,
He preach'd pure maid and prais'd cold chastity.
'Thus merely with the garment of a Grace
The naked and concealed fiend he cover'd,
That the unexperienc'd gave the tempter place,
Which, like a cherubin, above them hover'd.
Who, young and simple, would not be so lover'd?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: all the year making toys, and so hurried on that one night when he
visits our homes with his packs, that he comes and goes among us like
a flash; and it is almost impossible to catch a glimpse of him.
And, although there are millions and millions more children in the
world than there used to be, Santa Claus has never been known to
complain of their increasing numbers.
"The more the merrier!" he cries, with his jolly laugh; and the only
difference to him is the fact that his little workmen have to make
their busy fingers fly faster every year to satisfy the demands of so
many little ones.
"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: Or again,[7] let us suppose that both should have occasion to
pronounce a panegyric. Whose compliments will carry farther, in the
way of delectation, think you? Or on occasion of a solemn sacrifice,
suppose they do a friend the honour of an invitation.[8] In either
case it is an honour, but which will be regarded with the greater
gratitude, the monarch's or the lesser man's?
[7] "Come now."
[8] Cf. "Mem." II. iii. 11 as to "sacrifices as a means of social
enjoyment." Dr. Holden cf. Aristot. "Nic. Eth." VIII. ix. 160,
"And hence it is that these clan communites and hundreds solemnise
sacrifices, in connection with which they hold large gatherings,
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