| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Leave me or tarry, Edward will be king,
And not be tied unto his brother's will.
QUEEN ELIZABETH.
My lords, before it pleas'd his majesty
To raise my state to title of a queen,
Do me but right, and you must all confess
That I was not ignoble of descent,
And meaner than myself have had like fortune.
But as this title honours me and mine,
So your dislikes, to whom I would be pleasing,
Doth cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: from
north and southward,
Savitar send us perfect health and comfort, Savitar let our
days of
life be lengthened!
HYMN XXXVII. Surya.
1. Do homage unto Varuna's and Mitra's Eye: offer this solemn
worship
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: when he should cease to feel it. And she thought to herself
that this certainty of oblivion must be bitterer than any
certainty of pain.
A silence had fallen between them. He broke it by rising from
his seat, and saying with a shrug: "You'll end by driving me to
marry Joan Senechal."
Susy smiled. "Well, why not? She's lovely."
"Yes; but she'll bore me."
"Poor Streff! So should I--"
"Perhaps. But nothing like as soon--" He grinned sardonically.
"There'd be more margin." He appeared to wait for her to speak.
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