| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: The gentleman got out at the next station beyond.
As soon as she was gone, the young Southerner
said to my master, "What a d----d shame it is for
that old whining hypocritical humbug to cheat
the poor negroes out of their liberty! If she has
religion, may the devil prevent me from ever being
converted!"
For the purpose of somewhat disguising myself,
I bought and wore a very good second-hand white
beaver, an article which I had never indulged in
before. So just before we arrived at Washington,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: but a headshake of a sharpness that settled it. "Why shan't we all
the more keep meeting?"
"I mean meeting this way--only this way. At my place there--THAT
I've nothing to do with, and I hope of course you'll turn up, with
your correspondence, when it suits you. Whether I stay or not, I
mean; for I shall probably not stay."
"You're going somewhere else?" he put it with positive anxiety.
"Yes, ever so far away--to the other end of London. There are all
sorts of reasons I can't tell you; and it's practically settled.
It's better for me, much; and I've only kept on at Cocker's for
YOU."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: The woman you knew long ago, long ago,
Is no more. You yourself have within you, I know,
The germ of a joy in the years yet to be,
Whereby the past years will bear fruit. As for me,
I go my own way,--onward, upward!
"O yet,
Let me thank you for that which ennobled regret
When it came, as it beautified hope ere it fled,--
The love I once felt for you. True, it is dead,
But it is not corrupted. I too have at last
Lived to learn that love is not--such love as is past,
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