| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: gleamed with its mild stimulus. She remained an hour or more.
When she went out, Amelia slipped an envelope into her hand and
at the same time embraced and kissed her. Sophia and Anna
followed her example. Eudora opened her mouth as if to speak,
but smiled instead, a fond, proud smile. During the last fifteen
minutes of her stay Amelia had slipped out of the room with the
blue and white bundle. Now she brought it out and laid it
carefully in the carriage.
"We are always so glad to see you, dearest Eudora," said she,
"but you understand --"
"Yes," said Sophia, "you understand, Eudora dear, that there is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: the old days, for he did business in precious gems in the
city of Havana; they now became almost continuous; and when
he returned, it was but for the night and with the manner of
a man crushed down by adverse fortune.
The place where I was born and passed my days was an isle set
in the Caribbean Sea, some half-hour's rowing from the coasts
of Cuba. It was steep, rugged, and, except for my father's
family and plantation, uninhabited and left to nature. The
house, a low building surrounded by spacious verandahs, stood
upon a rise of ground and looked across the sea to Cuba. The
breezes blew about it gratefully, fanned us as we lay
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: do battle for you against the enemy; this is the kind of superiority which
you must establish over them, if you mean to accomplish any noble action
really worthy of yourself and of the state.
ALCIBIADES: That would certainly be my aim.
SOCRATES: Verily, then, you have good reason to be satisfied, if you are
better than the soldiers; and you need not, when you are their superior and
have your thoughts and actions fixed upon them, look away to the generals
of the enemy.
ALCIBIADES: Of whom are you speaking, Socrates?
SOCRATES: Why, you surely know that our city goes to war now and then with
the Lacedaemonians and with the great king?
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