| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: [Exit.]
ACT I. SCENE I.
Enter Brutus carried in a chair, Locrine, Camber, Albanact,
Corineius, Gwendoline, Assarachus, Debon, Thrasimachus.
BRUTUS.
Most loyal Lords and faithful followers,
That have with me, unworthy General,
Passed the greedy gulf of Ocean,
Leaving the confines of fair Italy,
Behold, your Brutus draweth nigh his end,
And I must leave you, though against my will.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: just reached the angle of the ruined wall, so full of chinks, which no
one, through a caprice of the mistress, was allowed to touch, though
Cornoiller often remarked to his wife that "it would fall and crush
somebody one of these days." At this moment the postman knocked, and
gave a letter to Madame Cornoiller, who ran into the garden, crying
out:
"Mademoiselle, a letter!" She gave it to her mistress, adding, "Is it
the one you expected?"
The words rang as loudly in the heart of Eugenie as they echoed in
sound from wall to wall of the court and garden.
"Paris--from him--he has returned!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: the practice of virtue is commanded.'"
"Surely," said the Princess, "this man is happy."
"I visited him," said Imlac, "with more and more frequency, and was
every time more enamoured of his conversation; he was sublime
without haughtiness, courteous without formality, and communicative
without ostentation. I was at first, great Princess, of your
opinion, thought him the happiest of mankind, and often
congratulated him on the blessing that he enjoyed. He seemed to
hear nothing with indifference but the praises of his condition, to
which he always returned a general answer, and diverted the
conversation to some other topic.
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