| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was call'd.
Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together;
To themselves yet either-neither,
Simple were so well compounded.
That it cried how true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none
If what parts can so remain.
Whereupon it made this threne
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: I must add a word; for I hope the reader will not fail to
perceive that this is as much the story of a heroic people as
that of a heroic man. It is not enough to remember Yoshida;
we must not forget the common soldier, nor Kusakabe, nor the
boy of eighteen, Nomura, of Choshu, whose eagerness betrayed
the plot. It is exhilarating to have lived in the same days
with these great-hearted gentlemen. Only a few miles from
us, to speak by the proportion of the universe, while I was
droning over my lessons, Yoshida was goading himself to be
wakeful with the stings of the mosquito; and while you were
grudging a penny income tax, Kusakabe was stepping to death
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: bright lights are strongly contrasted with deep shadows."
"It is to that point I would bring you, MA BELLE COUSINE; and
therefore they are most proper subjects for composition."
"And you want to turn composer, my good friend, and set my old
tales to some popular tune? But there have been too many
composers, if that be the word, in the field before. The
Highlands WERE indeed a rich mine; but they have, I think, been
fairly wrought out, as a good tune is grinded into vulgarity when
it descends to the hurdy-gurdy and the barrel-organ."
"If it be really tune," I replied, "it will recover its better
qualities when it gets into the hands of better artists."
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