| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: advantage.
Yet, though De Vaux entertained these sentiments concerning his
Northern neighbours, and extended them, with little mitigation,
even to such as had assumed the Cross, his respect for the King,
and a sense of the duty imposed by his vow as a Crusader,
prevented him from displaying them otherwise than by regularly
shunning all intercourse with his Scottish brethren-at-arms as
far as possible, by observing a sullen taciturnity when compelled
to meet them occasionally, and by looking scornfully upon them
when they encountered on the march and in camp. The Scottish
barons and knights were not men to bear his scorn unobserved or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: plenty, growled away their latter years in
discontented competence.
None enter the regions of luxury with higher
expectations than men of wit, who imagine, that they
shall never want a welcome to that company whose
ideas they can enlarge, or whose imaginations they
can elevate, and believe themselves able to pay for
their wine with the mirth which it qualifies them
to produce. Full of this opinion, they crowd with
little invitation, wherever the smell of a feast allures
them, but are seldom encouraged to repeat their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: him, "O prince, more noble in soul even than in outward show,
well instructed in these marvellous mysteries, mayst thou
continue in thy good confession until the end, and may neither
time nor tide ever pluck it out of thine heart! For myself, I
will depart straightway in search of my salvation, and will by
penance pacify that God whom I have angered: for, except thou
will it, I shall see the king's face no more." Then was the
prince exceeding glad, and joyfully heard his saying. And he
embraced and kissed him affectionately; and, when he had prayed
earnestly to God, he sent him forth from the palace.
So Nachor stepped forth with a contrite heart, and went bounding
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