| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: speech by reason of darkness.
JOB 37:20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he
shall be swallowed up.
JOB 37:21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds:
but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
JOB 37:22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible
majesty.
JOB 37:23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is
excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will
not afflict.
JOB 37:24 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: Feed, Tityrus, my goats, and, having fed,
Drive to the drinking-pool, and, as you drive,
Beware the he-goat; with his horn he butts."
MOERIS
Ay, or to Varus that half-finished lay,
"Varus, thy name, so still our Mantua live-
Mantua to poor Cremona all too near-
Shall singing swans bear upward to the stars."
LYCIDAS
So may your swarms Cyrnean yew-trees shun,
Your kine with cytisus their udders swell,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: pockets, and rummaged through his drawers--result, nix. I asked
him about it while his mind was clear, and he told me he had not
a farthing of his own. What have you?"
"I have twenty francs left," said Rastignac; "but I will take
them to the roulette table, I shall be sure to win."
"And if you lose?"
"Then I shall go to his sons-in-law and his daughters and ask
them for money."
"And suppose they refuse?" Bianchon retorted. "The most pressing
thing just now is not really money; we must put mustard
poultices, as hot as they can be made, on his feet and legs. If
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