| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: expiry of his imprisonment, he could form with his wife and
friend a society, encircled by which he might dispense with more
extensive communication with the world. He was deceived; before
that term elapsed, his friend and his betrothed bride were man
and wife. The effects of a shock so dreadful on an ardent
temperament, a disposition already soured by bitter remorse, and
loosened by the indulgence of a gloomy imagination from the rest
of mankind, I cannot describe to you; it was as if the last cable
at which the vessel rode had suddenly parted, and left her
abandoned to all the wild fury of the tempest. He was placed
under medical restraint. As a temporary measure this might have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: advice. Some laugh at the very notion of advising others, and when they
are asked will not say what they think. They guess at the wishes of the
person who asks them, and answer according to his, and not according to
their own, opinion. But as we know that you are good judges, and will say
exactly what you think, we have taken you into our counsels. The matter
about which I am making all this preface is as follows: Melesias and I
have two sons; that is his son, and he is named Thucydides, after his
grandfather; and this is mine, who is also called after his grandfather,
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
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: DUCHESS.
What dream'd my lord? Tell me, and I'll requite it
With sweet rehearsal of my morning's dream.
GLOSTER.
Methought this staff, mine office-badge in court,
Was broke in twain;--by whom I have forgot,
But, as I think, it was by the cardinal,--
And on the pieces of the broken wand
Were plac'd the heads of Edmund Duke of Somerset
And William de la Pole, first duke of Suffolk.
This was my dream; what it doth bode, God knows.
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