| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: the following:- "If my works are good and of any importance whatever
for the further development of art, they will maintain their place
in spite of all adverse criticism and in spite of all hateful
suspicions attached to my artistic intentions. If my works are of
no account, the most gratifying success of the moment and the most
enthusiastic approval of as augurs cannot make them endure. The
waste-paper press can devour them as it has devoured many others,
and I will not shed a tear . . . and the world will move on just the
same."'--RICHARD STRAUSS.
The contents of this volume require some explanation of an
historical nature. It is scarcely realised by the present
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Porter, came through the pits of Opar beneath the temple of
The Flaming God without pursuit. But when the men of
Opar had talked further about the matter, they recalled to
mind that this very man had escaped once before into the
pits, and, though they had watched the entrance he had
not come forth; and yet today he had come upon them from
the outside. They would again send fifty men out into the
valley to find and capture this desecrater of their temple.
After Tarzan reached the shaft beyond the broken wall,
he felt so positive of the successful issue of his flight that
he stopped to replace the tumbled stones, for he was not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: You do it for increase: O strange excuse!
When reason is the bawd to lust's abuse. 792
'Call it not, love, for Love to heaven is fled,
Since sweating Lust on earth usurp'd his name;
Under whose simple semblance he hath fed
Upon fresh beauty, blotting it with blame; 796
Which the hot tyrant stains and soon bereaves,
As caterpillars do the tender leaves.
'Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; 800
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
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