| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: patience."
Let us honour the courtier who dared speak such truths; and still
more the saintly celibate who had sufficient catholicity of mind to
envelop them in old Grecian dress, and, without playing false for a
moment to his own Christianity, seek in the writings of heathen
sages a wider and a healthier view of humanity than was afforded by
an ascetic creed.
No wonder that the appearance of "Telemaque," published in Holland
without the permission of Fenelon, delighted throughout Europe that
public which is always delighted with new truths, as long as it is
not required to practise them. To read "Telemaque" was the right
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: Cenotaphs of the towns
Named on their crowns.
It is worth going to see
Where you MIGHT be.
What king
Did the thing,
I am still wondering;
Set up how or when,
By what selectmen,
Gourgas or Lee,
Clark or Darby?
Walking |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: the Professor's classic dialect, - the spreading beech, in more
familiar phrase, - [stop and breathe here a moment, for the
sentence is not done yet, and we have another long journey before
us,] -
- and again once more up among those other hills that shut in the
amber-flowing Housatonic, - dark stream, but clear, like the lucid
orbs that shine beneath the lids of auburn-haired, sherry-wine-eyed
demi-blondes, - in the home overlooking the winding stream and the
smooth, flat meadow; looked down upon by wild hills, where the
tracks of bears and catamounts may yet sometimes be seen upon the
winter snow; facing the twin summits which rise in the far North,
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table |
