| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: feeling which made her what she was, one of those beloved,
loving, and self-sacrificing natures so rarely found upon this
earth.
In the evening the Comte de Montpersan came himself as far as
Moulins with me. There he spoke with a kind of embarrassment:
"Monsieur, if it is not abusing your good-nature, and acting very
inconsiderately towards a stranger to whom we are already under
obligations, would you have the goodness, as you are going to
Paris, to remit a sum of money to M. de ---- (I forget the name),
in the Rue du Sentier; I owe him an amount, and he asked me to
send it as soon as possible."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor.
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
NIGHT
The sun descending in the West,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
The moon, like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight,
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: [36] "From mere shortness of breath."
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To cope with the wild boar the huntsman needs to have a variety of
dogs, Indian, Cretan, Locrian, and Laconian,[1] along with a stock of
nets, javelins, boar-spears, and foot-traps.
[1] For these breeds see Pollux, v. 37: for the Laconian, Pind. "Fr."
73; Soph. "Aj." 8; cf. Shakesp. "Mids. N. D." iv. 1. 119, 129
foll.
To begin with, the hounds must be no ordinary specimens of the species
named,[2] in order to do battle with the beast in question.
[2] Or, "these hounds of the breed named must not be any ordinary
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