| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: timendum existimaverat, consilio celeriter convocato sententias exquirere
coepit. Quo in consilio, cum tantum repentini periculi praeter opinionem
accidisset ac iam omnia fere superiora loca multitudine armatorum completa
conspicerentur neque subsidio veniri neque commeatus supportari
interclusis itineribus possent, prope iam desperata salute non nullae eius
modi sententiae dicebantur, ut impedimentis relictis eruptione facta isdem
itineribus quibus eo pervenissent ad salutem contenderent. Maiori tamen
parti placuit, hoc reservato ad extremum consilio interim rei
eventum experiri et castra defendere.
Brevi spatio interiecto, vix ut iis rebus quas constituissent
conlocandis atque administrandis tempus daretur, hostes ex omnibus
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: Of the all noble Theseus, for whose fortunes
I will now in, and kneele with great assurance,
That we, more then his Pirothous, possesse
The high throne in his heart.
EMILIA.
I am not
Against your faith; yet I continew mine. [Exeunt. Cornets.]
Scaena 4. (A field before Thebes. Dead bodies lying on the
ground.)
[A Battaile strooke within: Then a Retrait: Florish. Then
Enter Theseus (victor), (Herald and Attendants:) the three
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: salary. Had she not been in Europe that July, I believe that I should
have spoken to her at once. But I sent her the paper; and I have the
letter that she wrote in reply."
"I"--began Ethel. But she stopped.
"Yes, I know now that you kept the verses," said Richard. "My next
manuscript, however, was rejected. Indeed, I went on offering my literary
productions nearly every week until the following January before a second
acceptance came. It was twenty five dollars this time, and almost made me
feel again that I could handsomely support Ethel. But not quite. After
the first charming elation at earning money with my pen, those weeks of
refusal had caused me to think more soberly. And though I was now bent
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