| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Hast fought thy whole life through,
Hast humbled Falsehood, trampled Fear;
What is there left to do?
"'Tis true, this arm has hotly striven,
Has dared what few would dare;
Much have I done, and freely given,
But little learnt to bear!
"Look on the grave where thou must sleep
Thy last, and strongest foe;
It is endurance not to weep,
If that repose seem woe.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: interest--or have in other words not failed to note how, even so
associated and so discriminated, the finest proprieties and charms
of the non-scenic may, under the right hand for them, still keep
their intelligibility and assert their office. Infinitely
suggestive such an observation as this last on the whole
delightful head, where representation is concerned, of possible
variety, of effective expressional change and contrast. One would
like, at such an hour as this, for critical licence, to go into
the matter of the noted inevitable deviation (from too fond an
original vision) that the exquisite treachery even of the
straightest execution may ever be trusted to inflict even on the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: without being observed. Here they dismounted and Nor-
man of Torn crept stealthily forward alone.
Taking advantage of every cover he approached to the
very shadows of the great gate without being detected.
In the castle a light shone dimly from the windows
of the great hall, but no other sign of life was apparent.
To his intense surprise, Norman of Torn found the draw-
bridge lowered and no sign of watchmen at the gate
or upon the walls.
As he had sacked this castle some two years since
he was familiar with its internal plan, and so he knew
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