| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: LODOWICK.
I go.
[Exit Lodowick.]
COUNTESS.
Sorry I am to see my liege so sad:
What may thy subject do to drive from thee
Thy gloomy consort, sullome melancholy?
KING EDWARD.
Ah, Lady, I am blunt and cannot straw
The flowers of solace in a ground of shame:--
Since I came hither, Countess, I am wronged.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: guessed them.
On the following day Modeste and Madame Dumay took Madame Mignon about
mid-day to a seat in the sun among the flowers. The blind woman turned
her wan and blighted face toward the ocean; she inhaled the odors of
the sea and took the hand of her daughter who remained beside her. The
mother hesitated between forgiveness and remonstrance ere she put the
important question; for she comprehended the girl's love and
recognized, as the pretended Canalis had done, that Modeste was
exceptional in nature.
"God grant that your father return in time! If he delays much longer
he will find none but you to love him. Modeste, promise me once more
Modeste Mignon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: What wonder, then, if, in a little while, all his subjects, in
city or country, were so well initiated into his inspired
teachings, that they renounced the errors of their many gods, and
broke away from idolatrous drink-offerings and abominations, and
were joined to the true faith and were created anew by his
doctrine, and added to the household of Christ? And all, who for
fear of Ioasaph's father had been shut up in mountains and dens,
priests and monks, and some few bishops, came forth from their
hiding places and resorted to him gladly. He himself would meet
and receive with honour those who had fallen upon such
tribulation and distress, for Christ his sake, and bring them to
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