| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: idea of wandering off solitary through the mountains,
passing good feed, good water, good shelter. We
would find him, after a greater or less period of difficult
tracking, perched in a silly fashion on some elevation.
Heaven knows what his idea was: it certainly
was neither search for feed, escape, return whence he
came, nor desire for exercise. When we came up
with him, he would gaze mildly at us from a foolish
vacant eye and follow us peaceably back to camp.
Like most weak and silly people, he had occasional
stubborn fits when you could beat him to a pulp
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: tention. This is a thing may seem to many a matter
trivial, and done already. But if it were done less
partially, it would be embraced more generally.
Of this I may give only this advice, according to
my small model. Men ought to take heed, of rend-
ing God's church, by two kinds of controversies.
The one is, when the matter of the point contro-
verted, is too small and light, not worth the heat
and strife about it, kindled only by contradiction.
For, as it is noted, by one of the fathers, Christ's
coat indeed had no seam, but the church's vesture
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: existence, she also guessed that Lousteau's pen could never be trusted
to as a resource.
Then her love for him led her to take a step she would never had
thought of for her own sake. Through her mother she tried to negotiate
with her husband for an allowance, but without Etienne's knowledge;
for, as she thought, it would be an offence to his delicate feelings,
which must be considered. A few days before the end of July, Dinah
crumbled up in her wrath the letter from her mother containing
Monsieur de la Baudraye's ultimatum:
"Madame de la Baudraye cannot need an allowance in Paris when she can
live in perfect luxury at her Chateau of Anzy: she may return."
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