| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: think of it."
"Of course, I went steadily on with my work at the office in Nassau
Street, nor did I neglect my writing entirely. My attention, however, was
now turned to the question of investing my fortune. Just round the corner
from our office was the firm of Blake and Beverly, Stocks and Bonds.
Thither my steps began frequently to turn. Mr. Beverly had business which
brought him every week to the room of our president; and so having a sort
of acquaintance with him, I felt it easier to consult him than to seek
any other among the brokers, to which class I was a well nigh total
stranger. He very kindly consented to be my adviser. I was well pleased
to find how much I had underrated the interest-bearing capacity of my
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: An eye like Mars, to threaten or command
A Station, like the Herald Mercurie
New lighted on a heauen-kissing hill:
A Combination, and a forme indeed,
Where euery God did seeme to set his Seale,
To giue the world assurance of a man.
This was your Husband. Looke you now what followes.
Heere is your Husband, like a Mildew'd eare
Blasting his wholsom breath. Haue you eyes?
Could you on this faire Mountaine leaue to feed,
And batten on this Moore? Ha? Haue you eyes?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: fault if it failed to be generally understood that he was prepared
to execute the most striking likenesses on the most reasonable terms.
"He is an artist--my cousin is an artist," said Gertrude;
and she offered this information to every one who would receive it.
She offered it to herself, as it were, by way of admonition and reminder;
she repeated to herself at odd moments, in lonely places,
that Felix was invested with this sacred character. Gertrude had
never seen an artist before; she had only read about such people.
They seemed to her a romantic and mysterious class, whose life was made
up of those agreeable accidents that never happened to other persons.
And it merely quickened her meditations on this point that Felix
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