| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: prejudices which marred her young nature; but before attempting to
counteract them, he wished to be sure that she loved him, for he would
no sooner risk the fate of his love than of his life. He had,
therefore, persistently kept a silence to which his looks, his
behavior, and his smallest actions gave the lie.
On her side, the self-respect natural to a young girl, augmented in
Mademoiselle de Fontaine by the monstrous vanity founded on her birth
and beauty, kept her from meeting the declaration half-way, which her
growing passion sometimes urged her to invite. Thus the lovers had
instinctively understood the situation without explaining to each
other their secret motives. There are times in life when such
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Pour not the wine of life too thin
If water means the death of you.
"You say I might have learned at home
The truth in season to be strong?
Not so; I took the wine of life
Too thin, and I was calm too long.
"Like others who are strong too late,
For me there was no going back;
For I had found another speed,
And I was on the other track.
"God knows how far I might have gone
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Ariovisti utebatur. His mandavit quae diceret Ariovistus cognogcerent et
ad se referrent. Quos cum apud se in castris Ariovistus conspexisset,
exercitu suo praesente conclamavit: quid ad se venirent? an speculandi
causa? Conantes dicere prohibuit et in catenas coniecit.
Eodem die castra promovit et milibus passuum VI a Caesaris castris sub
monte consedit. Postridie eius diei praeter castra Caesaris suas copias
traduxit et milibus passuum duobus ultra eum castra fecit eo consilio uti
frumento commeatuque qui ex Sequanis et Haeduis supportaretur Caesarem
intercluderet. Ex eo die dies continuos V Caesar pro castris suas copias
produxit et aciem instructam habuit, ut, si vellet Ariovistus proelio
contendere, ei potestas non deesset. Ariovistus his omnibus diebus
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