| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: IV.
Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook
With young Adonis, lovely, fresh, and green,
Did court the lad with many a lovely look,
Such looks as none could look but beauty's queen,
She told him stories to delight his ear;
She show'd him favours to allure his eye;
To win his heart, she touch'd him here and there, --
Touches so soft still conquer chastity.
But whether unripe years did want conceit,
Or he refused to take her figured proffer,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: MORAL EMBLEMS II
Poem: I
With storms a-weather, rocks a-lee,
The dancing skiff puts forth to sea.
The lone dissenter in the blast
Recoils before the sight aghast.
But she, although the heavens be black,
Holds on upon the starboard tack,
For why? although to-day she sink,
Still safe she sails in printer's ink,
And though to-day the seamen drown,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: deceased Mrs. Tilney augmented with every question,
whether answered or not. Of her unhappiness in marriage,
she felt persuaded. The general certainly had been
an unkind husband. He did not love her walk: could he
therefore have loved her? And besides, handsome as he was,
there was a something in the turn of his features which
spoke his not having behaved well to her.
"Her picture, I suppose," blushing at the consummate
art of her own question, "hangs in your father's room?"
"No; it was intended for the drawing-room; but my father
was dissatisfied with the painting, and for some time it
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