| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: The Two Fellows and the Bear
Two Fellows were travelling together through a wood, when a
Bear rushed out upon them. One of the travellers happened to be
in front, and he seized hold of the branch of a tree, and hid
himself among the leaves. The other, seeing no help for it, threw
himself flat down upon the ground, with his face in the dust. The
Bear, coming up to him, put his muzzle close to his ear, and
sniffed and sniffed. But at last with a growl he shook his head
and slouched off, for bears will not touch dead meat. Then the
fellow in the tree came down to his comrade, and, laughing, said
"What was it that Master Bruin whispered to you?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: be.[23] To and fro they weave a curious web,[24] now across, now
parallel with the line,[25] whose threads are interlaced, here
overlapped, and here revolving in a circle; now straight, now crooked;
here close, there rare; at one time clear enough, at another dimly
owned. Past one another the hounds jostle--tails waving fast, ears
dropt, and eyes flashing.
[23] "Discovering two or three scents, as the case may be";
"unravelling her line, be it single or double."
[24] {prophoreisthai} = {diazesthai}, Pollux, vii. 52. Schneid. cf.
Aristoph. "Birds," 4, {apoloumeth' allos ten odon prophoroumeno}.
Still up and down, old sinner, must we pace;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: seat, at first in the confusion of my mind, later on from policy;
and she stood, and leaned a little over me, as in pity. She was
very still and timid; her voice was low. Did I suffer in my
captivity? she asked me. Had I to complain of any hardship?
'Mademoiselle, I have not learned to complain,' said I. 'I am a
soldier of Napoleon.'
She sighed. 'At least you must regret LA FRANCE,' said she, and
coloured a little as she pronounced the words, which she did with a
pretty strangeness of accent.
'What am I to say?' I replied. 'If you were carried from this
country, for which you seem so wholly suited, where the very rains
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