| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: I made simply to make him confess that he adored you," said Etienne.
"Your silence, during dinner the day before yesterday and throughout
the evening, was enough to betray one of those indiscretions which we
never commit in Paris.--What can I say? I do not flatter myself that
you will understand me. In fact, I laid a plot for the telling of all
those stories yesterday solely to see whether I could rouse you and
Monsieur de Clagny to a pang of remorse.--Oh! be quite easy; your
innocence is fully proved.
"If you had the slightest fancy for that estimable magistrate, you
would have lost all your value in my eyes.--I love perfection.
"You do not, you cannot love that cold, dried-up, taciturn little
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: charge by an admirable, if important, negro, who sighted me from a door
beneath the porch of the house, and advanced upon me speedily. From him I
learned at once the rule of the place, that strangers were not allowed to
"go loose," as he expressed it; and recognizing the perfect propriety of
this restriction, I was humble, and even went so far as to put myself
right with him by quite ample purchases of the beautiful flowers that he
had for sale; some of these would be excellent for the up-country bride,
who certainly ought to have repentance from me in some form for my
silence as we had come up the river: the scenery had caused me most
ungallantly to forget her.
My rule-breaking turned out all to my advantage. The admirable and
important negro was so pacified by my liberal amends that he not only
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Deuteronomy 8: 4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy 8: 5 And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
Deuteronomy 8: 6 And thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him.
Deuteronomy 8: 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 8: 8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;
Deuteronomy 8: 9 a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Deuteronomy 8: 10 And thou shalt eat and be satisfied, and bless the LORD thy God for the good land which He hath given thee.
Deuteronomy 8: 11 Beware lest thou forget the LORD thy God, in not keeping His commandments, and His ordinances, and His statutes, which I command thee this day;
Deuteronomy 8: 12 lest when thou hast eaten and art satisfied, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Deuteronomy 8: 13 and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
Deuteronomy 8: 14 then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
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