| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: Here is Mount Clear, Mount Rusty-Nail,
Mount Eagle and Mount High;--
The mice that in these mountains dwell,
No happier are than I!
Oh, what a joy to clamber there,
Oh, what a place for play,
With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air,
The happy hills of hay!
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Farewell to the Farm
The coach is at the door at last;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: "George" he said once or twice, "this is a great occasion for
you--a very great occasion." He spoke a little doubtfully.
You see I had told him nothing about Marion until about a week
before the wedding; both he and my aunt had been taken altogether
by surprise. They couldn't, as people say, "make it out." My
aunt was intensely interested, much more than my uncle; it was
then, I think, for the first time that I really saw that she
cared for me. She got me alone, I remember, after I had made my
announcement. "Now, George," she said, "tell me everything about
her. Why didn't you tell--ME at least--before?"
I was surprised to find how difficult it was to tell her about
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Lear. Let me alone.
Kent. Good my lord, enter here.
Lear. Wilt break my heart?
Kent. I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.
Lear. Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm
Invades us to the skin. So 'tis to thee;
But where the greater malady is fix'd,
The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear;
But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea,
Thou'dst meet the bear i' th' mouth. When the mind's free,
The body's delicate. The tempest in my mind
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