| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: shall do, is well founded on reason and in conformity with the rules
of chivalry, for I understand them better than all the world that
profess them."
"Senor," replied Sancho, "is it a good rule of chivalry that we
should go astray through these mountains without path or road, looking
for a madman who when he is found will perhaps take a fancy to
finish what he began, not his story, but your worship's head and my
ribs, and end by breaking them altogether for us?"
"Peace, I say again, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for let me tell
thee it is not so much the desire of finding that madman that leads me
into these regions as that which I have of performing among them an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: So small, that the inconstant butterfly
Could steal the hoarded money from each flower
Ere it was noon, and still not satisfy
Its over-greedy love, - within an hour
A sailor boy, were he but rude enow
To land and pluck a garland for his galley's painted prow,
Would almost leave the little meadow bare,
For it knows nothing of great pageantry,
Only a few narcissi here and there
Stand separate in sweet austerity,
Dotting the unmown grass with silver stars,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Proverbs 8: 4 'Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.
Proverbs 8: 5 O ye thoughtless, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
Proverbs 8: 6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Proverbs 8: 7 For my mouth shall utter truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Proverbs 8: 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness, there is nothing perverse or crooked in them.
Proverbs 8: 9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
Proverbs 8: 10 Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Proverbs 8: 11 For wisdom is better than rubies, and all things desirable are not to be compared unto her.
Proverbs 8: 12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of devices.
Proverbs 8: 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 8: 14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine.
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