| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: mud, in the same peculiar manner as does our British thrush: how it is
that the male wrens (Troglodytes) of North America, build 'cock-nests,' to
roost in, like the males of our distinct Kitty-wrens,--a habit wholly
unlike that of any other known bird. Finally, it may not be a logical
deduction, but to my imagination it is far more satisfactory to look at
such instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers,--ants
making slaves,--the larvae of ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies
of caterpillars,--not as specially endowed or created instincts, but as
small consequences of one general law, leading to the advancement of all
organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the
weakest die.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: They surged about me singing of the south--
I turned my head away to keep still holy
Your kiss upon my mouth.
And swift sweet rains of shining April weather
Found not my lips where living kisses are;
I bowed my head lest they put out my glory
As rain puts out a star.
I am my love's and he is mine forever,
Sealed with a seal and safe forevermore--
Think you that I could let a beggar enter
Where a king stood before?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: motioned the ladies to enter. They had no sooner done so than it
shut, and excluded their guide. The two ladies found themselves
in a small vestibule, illuminated by a dim lamp, and having, when
the door was closed, no communication with the external light or
air. The door of an inner apartment, partly open, was at the
farther side of the vestibule.
"We must not hesitate now, Jemima," said Lady Bothwell, and
walked forwards into the inner room, where, surrounded by books,
maps, philosophical utensils, and other implements of peculiar
shape and appearance, they found the man of art.
There was nothing very peculiar in the Italian's appearance. He
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