| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Tencterorum, quam supra commemoravi praedandi frumentandi causa Mosam
transisse neque proelio interfuisse, post fugam suorum se trans Rhenum in
fines Sugambrorum receperat seque cum his coniunxerat. Ad quos cum Caesar
nuntios misisset, qui postularent eos qui sibi Galliae bellum intulissent
sibi dederent, responderunt: populi Romani imperium Rhenum finire; si se
invito Germanos in Galliam transire non aequum existimaret, cur sui
quicquam esse imperii aut potestatis trans Rhenum postularet? Ubii autem,
qui uni ex Transrhenanis ad Caesarem legatos miserant, amicitiam fecerant,
obsides dederant, magnopere orabant ut sibi auxilium ferret, quod graviter
ab Suebis premerentur; vel, si id facere occupationibus rei publicae
prohiberetur, exercitum modo Rhenum transportaret: id sibi auxilium
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: Elinor could have given her immediate relief
by suggesting the possibility of its being Miss Morton's mother,
rather than her own, whom they were about to behold;
but instead of doing that, she assured her, and with
great sincerity, that she did pity her--to the utter
amazement of Lucy, who, though really uncomfortable herself,
hoped at least to be an object of irrepressible envy to Elinor.
Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright,
even to formality, in her figure, and serious,
even to sourness, in her aspect. Her complexion was sallow;
and her features small, without beauty, and naturally
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: Muller's quiet face lit up, and his eyes shone in a happiness that
made him appear ten years younger. That was one of the strange
things about Joseph Muller. This genius in his profession was in
all other ways a man of such simplicity of heart and bearing, that
the slightest word of approval from one of the officials for whom
he worked could make him as happy as praise from the teacher will
make a schoolboy. The moments when he was in command of any
difficult case, when these same superiors would wait for a word from
him, when high officials would take his orders or would be obliged
to acknowledge that without him they were helpless, these moments
were forgotten as soon as the problem was solved and Muller became
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