| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: answer, and replied: "Think you, my wife, it is through some such
traits of forethought seen in their mistress-leader that the hearts of
bees are won, and they are so loyally affectioned towards her that, if
ever she abandon her hive, not one of them will dream of being left
behind;[33] but one and all must follow her."
[33] Al. "will suffer her to be forsaken."
And my wife made answer to me: "It would much astonish me (said she)
did not these leader's works, you speak of, point to you rather than
myself. Methinks mine would be a pretty[34] guardianship and
distribution of things indoors without your provident care to see that
the importations from without were duly made."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Prayers & Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson: and formal. As the singing stopped he arose abruptly and left the
room. I hastened after him, fearing some sudden illness. 'What is
it?' I asked. 'It is this,' was the reply; 'I am not yet fit to
say, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass
against us."'
It is with natural reluctance that I touch upon the last prayer of
my husband's life. Many have supposed that he showed, in the
wording of this prayer, that he had some premonition of his
approaching death. I am sure he had no such premonition. It was I
who told the assembled family that I felt an impending disaster
approaching nearer and nearer. Any Scot will understand that my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: the vital source of virtue!
"One trait in my character was extreme credulity; but, when
my eyes were once opened, I saw but too clearly all I had before
overlooked. My husband was sunk in my esteem; still there are
youthful emotions, which, for a while, fill up the chasm of love
and friendship. Besides, it required some time to enable me to
see his whole character in a just light, or rather to allow it to
become fixed. While circumstances were ripening my faculties, and
cultivating my taste, commerce and gross relaxations were shutting
his against any possibility of improvement, till, by stifling
every spark of virtue in himself, he began to imagine that it
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