| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: squirrels drove her away.
She wandered all over the
wood, calling--
"Timmy Tiptoes! Timmy
Tiptoes! Oh, where is Timmy
Tiptoes?"
IN the meantime Timmy
Tiptoes came to his senses.
He found himself tucked up
in a little moss bed, very much
in the dark, feeling sore; it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the American with himself; but now, quite vividly, he
realized what it might mean to him if he failed before dawn
to convince someone that he was not the American. Peter
would not be awake at so early an hour, and if he had no
better success with others than he was having with these
soldiers, it was possible that he might be led out and shot
before his identity was discovered. The thing was prepos-
terous. The king's knees became suddenly quite weak. They
shook, and his legs gave beneath his weight so that he had
to lean against the back of a chair to keep from falling.
Once more he turned to the soldiers. This time he pleaded
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: - Now was I the master of this hotel, said I, laying the point of
my fore-finger on Mons. Dessein's breast, I would inevitably make a
point of getting rid of this unfortunate DESOBLIGEANT; - it stands
swinging reproaches at you every time you pass by it.
MON DIEU! said Mons. Dessein, - I have no interest - Except the
interest, said I, which men of a certain turn of mind take, Mons.
Dessein, in their own sensations, - I'm persuaded, to a man who
feels for others as well as for himself, every rainy night,
disguise it as you will, must cast a damp upon your spirits: - You
suffer, Mons. Dessein, as much as the machine -
I have always observed, when there is as much SOUR as SWEET in a
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