| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: [Enter IDEN.]
IDEN.
Lord, who would live turmoiled in the court,
And may enjoy such quiet walks as these?
This small inheritance my father left me
Contenteth me, and worth a monarchy.
I seek not to wax great by others' waning,
Or gather wealth, I care not with what envy;
Sufficeth that I have maintains my state
And sends the poor well pleased from my gate.
CADE.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: eyebrows, the vivacious eyes, and the archness of the pretty mouth.
Already she displayed those feline graces which nothing, not even
captivity nor the sight of her dreadful scaffold, could lessen. The
two queens--one at the dawn, the other in the midsummer of life--
presented at this moment the utmost contrast. Catherine was an
imposing queen, an impenetrable widow, without other passion than that
of power. Mary was a light-hearted, careless bride, making playthings
of her triple crowns. One foreboded great evils,--foreseeing the
assassination of the Guises as the only means of suppressing enemies
who were resolved to rise above the Throne and the Parliament;
foreseeing also the bloodshed of a long and bitter struggle; while
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: deferred interviews.
"That's going a little faster," he told Newmark cheerfully.
The following morning, also, he was much encouraged by the reception
his plan gained from the other lumbermen. At lunch he recapitulated
to Newmark.
"That's four contracts already," said he, "and three more
practically a sure thing. Proctor and Heinzman are slower than
molasses about everything, and mean as pusley, and Johnson's up in
the air, the way he always is, for fear some one's going to do him."
"It isn't a bad outlook," admitted Newmark.
But Heinzman offered a new problem for Orde's consideration.
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