| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Tanach: Lamentations 3: 40 Let us search and try our ways, and return to the LORD.
Lamentations 3: 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3: 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; Thou hast not pardoned.
Lamentations 3: 43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.
Lamentations 3: 44 Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
Lamentations 3: 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
Lamentations 3: 46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Lamentations 3: 47 Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Lamentations 3: 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the breach of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3: 49 Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Lamentations 3: 50 Till the LORD look forth, and behold from heaven.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: questions and general legal work." But "in what portion of
Shakespeare's career would it be possible to point out that time
could be found for the interposition of a legal employment in the
chambers or offices of practicing lawyers? . . . It is beyond
doubt that at an early period he was called upon to abandon his
attendance at school and assist his father, and was soon after,
at the age of sixteen, bound apprentice to a trade. While under
the obligation of this bond he could not have pursued any other
employment. Then he leaves Stratford and comes to London. He
has to provide himself with the means of a livelihood, and this
he did in some capacity at the theater. No one doubt that. The
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