| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: LORD SUMMERHAYS. It's no use, Tarleton. Spare yourself. Do you
seriously expect these young people, at their age, to sympathize with
what this gentleman calls your paternal sentimentality?
TARLETON. _[wistfully]_ Is it nothing to you but paternal
sentimentality, Patsy?
HYPATIA. Well, I greatly prefer your superabundant vitality, papa.
TARLETON. _[violently]_ Hold your tongue, you young devil. The
young are all alike: hard, coarse, shallow, cruel, selfish,
dirty-minded. You can clear out of my house as soon as you can coax
him to take you; and the sooner the better. _[To Percival]_ I think
you said your price was fifteen hundred a year. Take it. And I wish
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Can equal anger infinite provoked.
But wherefore thou alone? wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose? or thou than they
Less hardy to endure? Courageous Chief!
The first in flight from pain! hadst thou alleged
To thy deserted host this cause of flight,
Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.
To which the Fiend thus answered, frowning stern.
Not that I less endure, or shrink from pain,
Insulting Angel! well thou knowest I stood
Thy fiercest, when in battle to thy aid
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: be warned again. The gold money in this vessel has been brought
from the treasure-house of the ancient kings of Egypt. Take it;
be advised by the Talisman of Solomon; be wise and prosper."
"And to think that if I had listened to the Talisman, I would
never have found this," said the young man.
The gold in the vessel lasted maybe for a month of jollity and
merrymaking, but at the end of that time there was nothing
left--not a copper farthing.
"Tell me," said the young man to the Talisman, "what shall I do
now?"
"Thou fool," said the Talisman, "go sweat and toil, but do not go
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