| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: the most honorable and distinguished men. Fastidious in the
selection of his intimates, he desired to raise still further a
position which his talent had placed high. The work to which he
had devoted himself from boyhood, by compelling him to dwell in
solitude--the mother of great thoughts--had left him the
beautiful beliefs which grace the early days of life. His
adolescent soul was not closed to any of the thousand bashful
emotions by which a young man is a being apart, whose heart
abounds in joys, in poetry, in virginal hopes, puerile in the
eyes of men of the world, but deep because they are single-
hearted.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Fool's gold?--thy dullness proves them all
My lands--not thine!
For when all title-deeds are gone,
Still, still will satyr, nymph, and faun
Through brake and covert pipe and call
In dances bold and bacchanal--
For them, for me, you hold in pawn,
My lands--not thine!
TO A DANCING DOLL
FORMAL, quaint, precise, and trim,
You begin your steps demurely--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: unto them, Ye say that I am.
LUK 22:71 And they said, What need we any further witness? for we
ourselves have heard of his own mouth.
LUK 23:1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto
Pilate.
LUK 23:2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow
perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying
that he himself is Christ a King.
LUK 23:3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews?
And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
LUK 23:4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I
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