| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: He hears the clergy are offended;
And grown so bold behind his back,
To call him hypocrite and quack.
In his own church he keeps a seat;
Says grace before and after meat;
And calls, without affecting airs,
His household twice a day to prayers.
He shuns apothecaries' shops;
And hates to cram the sick with slops:
He scorns to make his art a trade,
Nor bribes my lady's favourite maid.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: then pay for them until they lay down their burdens; and if they
suckle (the child) for you, then give them their hire, and consult
among yourselves in reason; but if ye be in difficulties, and
another woman shall suckle the child for him, let him who has plenty
expend of his plenty; but he whose provision is doled out, let him
expend of what God has given him; God will not compel any soul
beyond what He has given it;-God will make after difficulty ease!
How many a city has turned away from the bidding of its Lord and His
apostles; and we called them to a severe account, and we tormented
them with an unheard-of torment!
And they tasted the evil results of their conduct; and the end of
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: thence?"
"That those," said Foster, "who distil poisons, and administer
them in secrecy, can have no portion in those unspeakable
riches."
"You are to distinguish, my son," replied the alchemist, "betwixt
that which is necessarily evil in its progress and in its end
also, and that which, being evil, is, nevertheless, capable of
working forth good. If, by the death of one person, the happy
period shall be brought nearer to us, in which all that is good
shall be attained, by wishing its presence--all that is evil
escaped, by desiring its absence--in which sickness, and pain,
Kenilworth |
