| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: that time for which, all night through, I waited and longed
of old. It was my custom, as the hours dragged on, to repeat
the question, 'When will the carts come in?' and repeat it
again and again until at last those sounds arose in the
street that I have heard once more this morning. The road
before our house is a great thoroughfare for early carts. I
know not, and I never have known, what they carry, whence
they come, or whither they go. But I know that, long ere
dawn, and for hours together, they stream continuously past,
with the same rolling and jerking of wheels and the same
clink of horses' feet. It was not for nothing that they made
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: For Tyranny is an incestuous Queen,
Murder her brother is her bedfellow,
And the Plague chambers with her: in obscene
And bloody paths her treacherous feet are set;
Better the empty desert and a soul inviolate!
For gentle brotherhood, the harmony
Of living in the healthful air, the swift
Clean beauty of strong limbs when men are free
And women chaste, these are the things which lift
Our souls up more than even Agnolo's
Gaunt blinded Sibyl poring o'er the scroll of human woes,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: truth superior to men, though, because they are weaker in body,
men have the upper hand of them and think themselves their
masters, a state they are forced to accept because they must live
and cannot defend themselves. Yet their brains are keener, as an
assegai is keener than a hoe; they are more in touch with the
hidden things that shape out fate for people and for nations;
they are more faithful and more patient, and by instinct if not
by reason, more far-seeing, or at least the best of them are so,
and by their best, like men, they should be judged. Yet this is
the hole in their shield. When they love they become the slaves
of love, and for love's sake all else is brought to naught, and
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