| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: To themselves yet either-neither,
Simple were so well compounded.
That it cried how true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none
If what parts can so remain.
Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-supreme and stars of love;
As chorus to their tragic scene.
THRENOS.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: among them, vain men, pretentious men, profligate men, selfish,
self-seeking, and hypocritical men, who doubts? Among what class of
men were there not such in those evil days? In what class of men
are there not such now, in spite of all social and moral
improvement? But nothing but the conviction, among the average,
that they were in the right--that they were fighting a battle for
which it was worth while to dare, and if need be to suffer, could
have enabled them to defy what was then public opinion, backed by
overwhelming physical force.
Their intellectual defects are patent. No one can deny that their
inductions were hasty and partial: but then they were inductions as
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: And Sister Theckla said: ``She is older than the others. She must
have learned it at home!''
And Sister Angela and Sister Theckla came into the room and they
said: ``See, now, what you have done to the windows!''
Sure enough, when the little girls looked at the windows the glass
was all dim and blurred with little damp finger-prints!
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It was one day as the sun shone as it did shine most days, that the
same little girl who knew how to sing that song when it rained was
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