| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen;
But in them it were a wonder.
So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight:
Either was the other's mine.
Property was thus appall'd,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was call'd.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: And one you placed upon your breast --
(Red rose, love's seal of birth).
You plucked another from its stem --
(Tea rose, that means for aye);
And one you gave -- that bore for me
The thorns of memory."
"That's a crackerjack," said Sammy, admiringly.
There are five more verses," said Ravenel, pa-
tiently sardonic. "One naturally pauses at the end
of each. Of course -- "
"Oh, let's have the rest, old man," shouted Sammy,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: "Dangerous?" said Madame d'Espard. "Don't speak so of my nearest
friend. I have never seen or known anything in the princess that did
not seem to come from the noblest sentiments."
"Let the marquis say what he thinks," cried Rastignac. "When a man has
been thrown by a fine horse he thinks it has vices and he sells it."
Piqued by these words, the Marquis d'Esgrignon looked at d'Arthez and
said:--
"Monsieur is not, I trust, on such terms with the princess that we
cannot speak freely of her?"
D'Arthez kept silence. D'Esgrignon, who was not wanting in cleverness,
replied to Rastignac's speech with an apologetic portrait of the
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