| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: blasted all my happiness, and turned me out into the world in
a condition the reverse of all that had been before it.
My husband having trusted one of his fellow-clerks with a sum
of money, too much for our fortunes to bear the loss of, the
clerk failed, and the loss fell very heavy on my husband, yet it
was not so great neither but that, if he had had spirit and courage
to have looked his misfortunes in the face, his credit was so
good that, as I told him, he would easily recover it; for to sink
under trouble is to double the weight, and he that will die in it,
shall die in it.
It was in vain to speak comfortably to him; the wound had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: or twice to Kerfol with his father, but she had never before
exchanged a dozen words with him. They did not talk for more
than five minutes now: it was under the chestnuts, as the
procession was coming out of the chapel. He said: "I pity you,"
and she was surprised, for she had not supposed that any one
thought her an object of pity. He added: "Call for me when you
need me," and she smiled a little, but was glad afterward, and
thought often of the meeting.
She confessed to having seen him three times afterward: not more.
How or where she would not say--one had the impression that she
feared to implicate some one. Their meetings had been rare and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: SOCRATES: And are you now conscious of your own state? And do you know
whether you are a freeman or not?
ALCIBIADES: I think that I am very conscious indeed of my own state.
SOCRATES: And do you know how to escape out of a state which I do not even
like to name to my beauty?
ALCIBIADES: Yes, I do.
SOCRATES: How?
ALCIBIADES: By your help, Socrates.
SOCRATES: That is not well said, Alcibiades.
ALCIBIADES: What ought I to have said?
SOCRATES: By the help of God.
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