| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: Shall see them bodily? O it were meet
To roll the stone from off the sepulchre
And kiss the bleeding roses of their wounds, in love of her,
Our Italy! our mother visible!
Most blessed among nations and most sad,
For whose dear sake the young Calabrian fell
That day at Aspromonte and was glad
That in an age when God was bought and sold
One man could die for Liberty! but we, burnt out and cold,
See Honour smitten on the cheek and gyves
Bind the sweet feet of Mercy: Poverty
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Awakening & Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin: stick to it with persistence and determination till her turn came
to be served, no matter when it came.
But that day she was a little faint and tired. She had
swallowed a light luncheon--no! when she came to think of it,
between getting the children fed and the place righted, and
preparing herself for the shopping bout, she had actually forgotten
to eat any luncheon at all!
She sat herself upon a revolving stool before a counter that
was comparatively deserted, trying to gather strength and courage
to charge through an eager multitude that was besieging
breastworks of shirting and figured lawn. An all-gone limp feeling had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: looking at her with a half-absent fixity, ''Tis a strange
thing, certainly, that in my years of fortune I should never
taste happiness, and now when I am broke, enjoy so much of
it, for was I ever happier than to-day? Was the grass
softer, the stream pleasanter in sound, the air milder, the
heart more at peace? Why should I not sink? To dig - why,
after all, it should be easy. To take a mate, too? Love is
of all grades since Jupiter; love fails to none; and
children' - but here he passed his hand suddenly over his
eyes. 'O fool and coward, fool and coward!' he said
bitterly; 'can you forget your fetters? You did not know
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