| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: mine.
PRO 23:16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right
things.
PRO 23:17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of
the LORD all the day long.
PRO 23:18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not
be cut off.
PRO 23:19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the
way.
PRO 23:20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
PRO 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: Aristides. Now, we are resolved to take the greatest care of the youths,
and not to let them run about as they like, which is too often the way with
the young, when they are no longer children, but to begin at once and do
the utmost that we can for them. And knowing you to have sons of your own,
we thought that you were most likely to have attended to their training and
improvement, and, if perchance you have not attended to them, we may remind
you that you ought to have done so, and would invite you to assist us in
the fulfilment of a common duty. I will tell you, Nicias and Laches, even
at the risk of being tedious, how we came to think of this. Melesias and I
live together, and our sons live with us; and now, as I was saying at
first, we are going to confess to you. Both of us often talk to the lads
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: preoccupied about our doubtful fare at tea. If it was delicate my
heart was much lightened; if it was but broken fish I was
proportionally downcast. The offer of a little jelly from a fellow-
passenger more provident than myself caused a marked elevation in my
spirits. And I would have gone to the ship's end and back again for
an oyster or a chipped fruit.
In other ways I was content with my position. It seemed no disgrace
to he confounded with my company; for I may as well declare at once I
found their manners as gentle and becoming as those of any other
class. I do not mean that my friends could have sat down without
embarrassment and laughable disaster at the table of a duke. That
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