| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: so Joshua Rigg looked at Stone Court and thought of buying gold.
He had a very distinct and intense vision of his chief good,
the vigorous greed which he had inherited having taken a special form
by dint of circumstance: and his chief good was to be a moneychanger.
From his earliest employment as an errand-boy in a seaport,
he had looked through the windows of the moneychangers as other
boys look through the windows of the pastry-cooks; the fascination
had wrought itself gradually into a deep special passion; he meant,
when he had property, to do many things, one of them being to marry
a genteel young person; but these were all accidents and joys that
imagination could dispense with. The one joy after which his soul
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And the daughter of Nokomis
Grew up like the prairie lilies,
Grew a tall and slender maiden,
With the beauty of the moonlight,
With the beauty of the starlight.
And Nokomis warned her often,
Saying oft, and oft repeating,
"Oh, beware of Mudjekeewis,
Of the West-Wind, Mudjekeewis;
Listen not to what he tells you;
Lie not down upon the meadow,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: a pilgrim and a hermit, suffering the most severe privations, not
indeed in ascetic devotion, but in abhorrence of mankind. Yet no
man's words and actions have been at such a wide difference, nor
has any hypocritical wretch ever been more ingenious in assigning
good motives for his vile actions, than this unfortunate in
reconciling to his abstract principles of misanthropy, a conduct
which flows from his natural generosity and kindness of feeling."
"Still, Mr. Ratcliffe--still you describe the inconsistencies of
a madman."
"By no means," replied Ratcliffe. "That the imagination of this
gentleman is disordered, I will not pretend to dispute; I have
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