| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: of life you neglect to live. You wander about a single city,
which, however large and diversified, can now afford few novelties,
and forget that you are in a country famous among the earliest
monarchies for the power and wisdom of its inhabitants - a country
where the sciences first dawned that illuminate the world, and
beyond which the arts cannot be traced of civil society or domestic
life.
"The old Egyptians have left behind them monuments of industry and
power before which all European magnificence is confessed to fade
away. The ruins of their architecture are the schools of modern
builders; and from the wonders which time has spared we may
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: Contents
I. THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT: FROM THE CLYDE TO SANDY HOOK
THE SECOND CABIN
EARLY IMPRESSION
STEERAGE IMPRESSIONS
STEERAGE TYPES
THE SICK MAN
THE STOWAWAYS
PERSONAL EXPIERENCE AND REVIEW
NEW YORK
II. COCKERMOUTH AND KESWICK
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: care. The grains of sand are stuck together with a cement of silk;
and the whole resists the pressure of the fingers.
If we continue to unshell the kernel, we find, below this mineral
layer, a last silken tunic that forms a globe around the brood. No
sooner do we tear this final covering than the frightened little
ones run away and scatter with an agility that is singular at this
cold and torpid season.
To sum up, when working in the natural state, the Labyrinth Spider
builds around the eggs, between two sheets of satin, a wall
composed of a great deal of sand and a little silk. To stop the
Ichneumon's probe and the teeth of the other ravagers, the best
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