| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: and secondly, that by natural genius he had anticipated the opinion
of that great apostle of sluttishness, Fridericus Dedekind, and his
faithful disciple Dekker, which last speaks thus to all gulls and
grobians: "Consider that as those trees of cobweb lawn, woven by
spinners in the fresh May mornings, do dress the curled heads of
the mountains, and adorn the swelling bosoms of the valleys; or as
those snowy fleeces, which the naked briar steals from the innocent
sheep to make himself a warm winter livery, are, to either of them
both, an excellent ornament; so make thou account, that to have
feathers sticking here and there on thy head will embellish thee,
and set thy crown out rarely. None dare upbraid thee, that like a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: sadness.)
ROSALIND: Don't ever forget me, Amory
AMORY: Good-by
(He goes to the door, fumbles for the knob, finds itshe sees him
throw back his headand he is gone. Goneshe half starts from the
lounge and then sinks forward on her face into the pillows.)
ROSALIND: Oh, God, I want to die! (After a moment she rises and
with her eyes closed feels her way to the door. Then she turns
and looks once more at the room. Here they had sat and dreamed:
that tray she had so often filled with matches for him; that
shade that they had discreetly lowered one long Sunday afternoon.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: enough for a department.
The present hierarchy in these bodies results in the subordination
of active energetic capacities to the worn-out capacities of old
men, who, thinking they know best, alter or nullify the plans
submitted by their subordinates,--perhaps with the sole aim of
making their existence felt; for that seems to me the only
influence exercised over the public works of France by the
Council-general of the /Ponts et Chaussees/.
Suppose, however, that I become, between thirty and forty years of
age, an engineer of the first-class and an engineer-in-chief
before I am fifty. Alas! I see my future; it is written before my
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