| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds
That shed Mayflowers; and pressed her matron lip
With kisses pure: Aside the Devil turned
For envy; yet with jealous leer malign
Eyed them askance, and to himself thus plained.
Sight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two,
Imparadised in one another's arms,
The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill
Of bliss on bliss; while I to Hell am thrust,
Where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,
Among our other torments not the least,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: then, in the early morning, a little white lakelet of fog
would be seen far down in Napa Valley; but the heights were
not again assailed, nor was the surrounding world again shut
off from Silverado.
THE TOLL HOUSE
THE Toll House, standing alone by the wayside under nodding
pines, with its streamlet and water-tank; its backwoods,
toll-bar, and well trodden croquet ground; the ostler
standing by the stable door, chewing a straw; a glimpse of
the Chinese cook in the back parts; and Mr. Hoddy in the bar,
gravely alert and serviceable, and equally anxious to lend or
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: out ice-huts like the Esquimaux."
"As to rest," said Servadac, "we shall take none; we shall keep on our
way continuously; by traveling day and night without intermission,
we shall not be more than three days in reaching Formentera."
"Believe me," persisted the lieutenant, calmly, "your enthusiasm
is carrying you too far; the feat you propose is impossible;
but even conceding the possibility of your success in reaching
your destination, what service do you imagine that you,
half-starved and half-frozen yourself, could render to those
who are already perishing by want and exposure? you would
only bring them away to die."
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