| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: in Somersetshire, the Croft, who rents Kellynch."
Before Sir Walter had reached this point, Anne's eyes had caught
the right direction, and distinguished Captain Wentworth standing
among a cluster of men at a little distance. As her eyes fell on him,
his seemed to be withdrawn from her. It had that appearance.
It seemed as if she had been one moment too late; and as long as she
dared observe, he did not look again: but the performance
was recommencing, and she was forced to seem to restore her attention
to the orchestra and look straight forward.
When she could give another glance, he had moved away. He could not have
come nearer to her if he would; she was so surrounded and shut in:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland:
or that
"Baby is a sweet pill,
That fills my soul with joy"
or when we see a father, mother or nurse--for nurses sometimes
become almost as fond of their little charge as the parents
themselves,--hugging the child to their bosoms as they say that
he is so sweet that "he makes you love him till it kills you," we
begin to appreciate the affection that prompts the utterance.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: those wise and foolish orators of his mightily discomfited, he
was at his wits' end. Them he visited with terrible outrage and
dishonour, scourging some severely with whips of oxhide,
besmearing their eyes with soot, and casting them away from his
presence. He himself began to condemn the impotence of the gods
falsely so called, although as yet he refused to look fully at
the light of Christ, for the dense cloud of darkness, that
enveloped him, still bound the eyes of his heart. Howbeit he no
longer honoured his temple-keepers, nor would he keep feasts, nor
make drink offerings to his idols, but his mind was tossed
between two opinions. On the one hand, he poured scorn on the
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