| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: Dost thou know captain Tremelio's chamber?
MOUSE.
Aye, very well; it hath a door.
SEGASTO.
I think so, for so hath every chamber.
But does thou know the man?
MOUSE.
Aye, forsooth, he hath a nose on his face.
SEGASTO.
Why so hath every one.
MOUSE.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: part of the coast of Lothian is to this day as wild a place, and the
commons there as rough a crew, as any in Scotland.
One incident of my imprisonment is made memorable by a consequence it
had long after. There was a warship at this time stationed in the
Firth, the SEAHORSE, Captain Palliser. It chanced she was cruising in
the month of September, plying between Fife and Lothian, and sounding
for sunk dangers. Early one fine morning she was seen about two miles
to east of us, where she lowered a boat, and seemed to examine the
Wildfire Rocks and Satan's Bush, famous dangers of that coast. And
presently after having got her boat again, she came before the wind and
was headed directly for the Base. This was very troublesome to Andie
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: propensities of their age and of the country. But whether their
theories were good or bad, they had the effect of being
inapplicable, as a system, to the society which they professed to
govern, and that which occurred under the auspices of Jefferson
must therefore have taken place sooner or later. But their
Government gave the new republic time to acquire a certain
stability, and afterwards to support the rapid growth of the very
doctrines which they had combated. A considerable number of
their principles were in point of fact embodied in the political
creed of their opponents; and the Federal Constitution which
subsists at the present day is a lasting monument of their
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