| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: Keeper of the Gate.
"Now I know that you are mistaken," cried the man, with growing
earnestness, "for all my life long I have been doing things that
must have supplied you with material. Have you not heard that
I have built a school-house; the wing of a hospital; two--yes,
three--small churches, and the greater part of a large one,
the spire of St. Petro--"
The Keeper of the Gate lifted his hand.
"Wait," he said; "we know all these things. They were not ill
done.
But they were all marked and used as foundation for the name and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: KING RICHARD. Who intercepts me in my expedition?
DUCHESS. O, she that might have intercepted thee,
By strangling thee in her accursed womb,
From all the slaughters, wretch, that thou hast done!
QUEEN ELIZABETH. Hidest thou that forehead with a golden
crown
Where't should be branded, if that right were right,
The slaughter of the Prince that ow'd that crown,
And the dire death of my poor sons and brothers?
Tell me, thou villain slave, where are my children?
DUCHESS. Thou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother
Richard III |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: signs of weeping.
"Oh! Monsieur, Madame has gone away, and taken Vedie with her!"
"Gone--a--way!" said the old man in a strangled voice.
The blow was so violent that Rouget sat down on the stairs, unable to
stand. A moment after, he rose, looked about the hall, into the
kitchen, went up to his own room, searched all the chambers, and
returned to the salon, where he threw himself into a chair, and burst
into tears.
"Where is she?" he sobbed. "Oh! where is she? where is Max?"
"I don't know," answered Kouski. "The captain went out without telling
me."
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