| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: PAROLLES.
I would the cutting of my garments would serve the turn, or the
breaking of my Spanish sword.
FIRST LORD. {Aside.]
We cannot afford you so.
PAROLLES.
Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in stratagem.
FIRST LORD. {Aside.]
'Twould not do.
PAROLLES.
Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal
suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as
the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is
not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more
unreasonable, or more cruel.
The people who were boisterous at Westminster upon the Friday
morning, and were eagerly bent upon the work of devastation in Duke
Street and Warwick Street at night, were, in the mass, the same.
Allowing for the chance accessions of which any crowd is morally
sure in a town where there must always be a large number of idle
and profligate persons, one and the same mob was at both places.
Barnaby Rudge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: Later on, it being brought to his notice that the Corinthians were
keeping all their cattle safely housed in the Peiraeum, sowing the
whole of that district, and gathering in their crops; and, which was a
matter of the greatest moment, that the Boeotians, with Creusis as
their base of operations, could pour their succours into Corinth by
this route--he marched against Peiraeum. Finding it strongly guarded,
he made as if the city of Corinth were about to capitulate, and
immediately after the morning meal shifted his ground and encamped
against the capital. Under cover of night there was a rush from
Peiraeum to protect the city, which he was well aware of, and with
break of day he turned right about and took Peiraeum, defenceless as
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