| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: man who knows his own frailty and sees all things in the proportion
of reality. The soul of piety was killed long ago by that idea of
reward. Nor is happiness, whether eternal or temporal, the reward
that mankind seeks. Happinesses are but his wayside campings; his
soul is in the journey; he was born for the struggle, and only
tastes his life in effort and on the condition that he is opposed.
How, then, is such a creature, so fiery, so pugnacious, so made up
of discontent and aspiration, and such noble and uneasy passions -
how can he be rewarded but by rest? I would not say it aloud; for
man's cherished belief is that he loves that happiness which he
continually spurns and passes by; and this belief in some ulterior
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: were charitable enough to say that all ugly babies turned out
pretty, eventually. She was named Ella Lorena, Ella for her
grandmother Ellen, and Lorena because it was the most fashionable
name of the day for girls, even as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall
Jackson were popular for boys and Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation
for negro children.
She was born in the middle of a week when frenzied excitement
gripped Atlanta and the air was tense with expectation of disaster.
A negro who had boasted of rape had actually been arrested, but
before he could be brought to trial the jail had been raided by the
Ku Klux Klan and he had been quietly hanged. The Klan had acted to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: does not appear that your friend has drawn an unfortunate----
But on this point it will be as well to be silent. Only let me
assure you, my dear Miss Elizabeth, that I can from my heart
most cordially wish you equal felicity in marriage. My dear
Charlotte and I have but one mind and one way of thinking.
There is in everything a most remarkable resemblance of
character and ideas between us. We seem to have been designed
for each other."
Elizabeth could safely say that it was a great happiness where
that was the case, and with equal sincerity could add, that she
firmly believed and rejoiced in his domestic comforts. She was
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