| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: He may reform--
SIR BENJAMIN. To be sure He may--for my Part I never believed him
to be so utterly void of Principle as People say--and tho'
he has lost all his Friends I am told nobody is better spoken of--
by the Jews.
CRABTREE. That's true egad nephew--if the Old Jewry was a Ward
I believe Charles would be an alderman--no man more popular there,
'fore Gad I hear He pays as many annuities as the Irish Tontine
and that whenever He's sick they have Prayers for the recovery
of his Health in the synagogue--
SIR BENJAMIN. Yet no man lives in greater Splendour:--they tell me
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: The earth, in love with thee, thy footing trips,
And all is but to rob thee of a kiss. 723
Rich preys make true men thieves; so do thy lips
Make modest Dian cloudy and forlorn,
Lest she should steal a kiss and die forsworn.
'Now of this dark night I perceive the reason:
Cynthia for shame obscures her silver shine 728
Till forging Nature be condemn'd of treason,
For stealing moulds from heaven that were divine;
Wherein she fram'd thee in high heaven's despite,
To shame the sun by day and her by night. 732
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: what Mrs. Jordan had had: it was obviously not a source of
speculation with him that his sweetheart might pick up a husband.
She could see perfectly that this was not for a moment even what he
supposed she herself dreamed of. What she had done was simply to
give his sensibility another push into the dim vast of trade. In
that direction it was all alert, and she had whisked before it the
mild fragrance of a "connexion." That was the most he could see in
any account of her keeping in, on whatever roundabout lines, with
the gentry; and when, getting to the bottom of this, she quickly
proceeded to show him the kind of eye she turned on such people and
to give him a sketch of what that eye discovered, she reduced him
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