| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: Their lives but pinch 'em; Let it here be done.
The Sceane's not for our seeing, goe we hence,
Right joyfull, with some sorrow.--Arme your prize,
I know you will not loose her.--Hipolita,
I see one eye of yours conceives a teare
The which it will deliver. [Florish.]
EMILIA.
Is this wynning?
Oh all you heavenly powers, where is your mercy?
But that your wils have saide it must be so,
And charge me live to comfort this unfriended,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov: on.
In the second year the piano was silent in the lodge, and the
prisoner asked only for the classics. In the fifth year music was
audible again, and the prisoner asked for wine. Those who watched
him through the window said that all that year he spent doing
nothing but eating and drinking and lying on his bed, frequently
yawning and angrily talking to himself. He did not read books.
Sometimes at night he would sit down to write; he would spend
hours writing, and in the morning tear up all that he had
written. More than once he could be heard crying.
In the second half of the sixth year the prisoner began zealously
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: Hush! open your eyes and ears once more, for you are growing
sleepy with my long sermon. Watch the sleepy shining water, and
the sleepy green mountains. Listen to the sleepy lapping of the
ripple, and the sleepy sighing of the woods, and let Lady Why talk
to you through them in "songs without words," because they are
deeper than all words, till you, too, fall asleep with your head
upon my knee.
But what does she say?
She says--"Be still. The fulness of joy is peace." There, you
are fast asleep; and perhaps that is the best thing for you; for
sleep will (so I am informed, though I never saw it happen, nor
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