| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Each eye that saw him did enchant the mind;
For on his visage was in little drawn,
What largeness thinks in paradise was sawn.
'Small show of man was yet upon his chin;
His phoenix down began but to appear,
Like unshorn velvet, on that termless skin,
Whose bare out-bragg'd the web it seemed to wear:
Yet show'd his visage by that cost more dear;
And nice affections wavering stood in doubt
If best were as it was, or best without.
His qualities were beauteous as his form,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: these the manners of the English gentleman?'
Harry confounded himself in the most abject apologies and
prayers to be forgiven, vowed to offend no more, and was at
length dismissed, crestfallen and heavy of heart. The check
was final; he gave up that road to service; and began once
more to hang about the square or on the terrace, filled with
remorse and love, admirable and idiotic, a fit object for the
scorn and envy of older men. In these idle hours, while he
was courting fortune for a sight of the beloved, it fell out
naturally that he should observe the manners and appearance
of such as came about the house. One person alone was the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: bronzes or oiling bicycle sprockets.'
"'You don't talk or look like a sheep-herder to me,' says he.
"'But you talk like what you look like to me,' says I.
"And then he asks me who I was working for, and I shows him Rancho
Chiquito, two miles away, in the shadow of a low hill, and he tells me
he's a deputy sheriff.
"'There's a train-robber called Black Bill supposed to be somewhere in
these parts,' says the scout. 'He's been traced as far as San
Antonio, and maybe farther. Have you seen or heard of any strangers
around here during the past month?'
"'I have not,' says I, 'except a report of one over at the Mexican
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