| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: Every fowl of tyrant wing,
Save the eagle, feather'd king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.
Let the priest in surplice white,
That defunctive music can,
Be the death-defying swan,
Lest the requiem lack his right.
And thou, treble-dated crow,
That thy sable gender mak'st
With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: by any person with whom she was in love; and nothing can ever
be done with her by anybody else. No good will ever come of
this, and I hope she will never marry him."
With this unusual burst, Kate retreated to Hope. Hope took the
news more patiently than any one, but with deep solicitude. A
worldly marriage seemed the natural result of the Ingleside
influence, but it had not occurred to anybody that it would
come so soon. It had not seemed Emilia's peculiar temptation;
and yet nobody could suppose that she looked at John Lambert
through any glamour of the affections.
Mr. John Lambert was a millionnaire, a politician, and a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: flight and is likewise extremely quick in manoeuvring. It is a
very small machine and is extremely light, but the fact that it
can climb at the rate of over 330 feet per minute is a distinct
advantage in its favour. It supplements the Morane-Saulnier
monoplane in the specific duty of the latter, while it is also
employed for discovering the enemy's artillery and communicating
the range of the latter to the French and British artillery. In
this latter work it has played a very prominent part and to
it is due in no small measure that deadly accuracy of the
artillery of the Allies which has now become so famous. This
applies especially to those tactics, where the field artillery
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