| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch
Upon the lute doth ravish human sense;
Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such
As, passing all conceit, needs no defence.
Thou lovest to bear the sweet melodious sound
That Phoebus' lute, the queen of music, makes;
And I in deep delight am chiefly drown'd
Whenas himself to singing he betakes.
One god is god of both, as poets feign;
One knight loves both, and both in thee remain.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: flashed upon the ambiguity of Daisy's behavior, and the riddle had
become easy to read. She was a young lady whom a gentleman need
no longer be at pains to respect. He stood there, looking at her--
looking at her companion and not reflecting that though he saw
them vaguely, he himself must have been more brightly visible.
He felt angry with himself that he had bothered so much about
the right way of regarding Miss Daisy Miller. Then, as he was going
to advance again, he checked himself, not from the fear that he was doing
her injustice, but from a sense of the danger of appearing unbecomingly
exhilarated by this sudden revulsion from cautious criticism.
He turned away toward the entrance of the place, but, as he did so,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: them seemed in a fair way to mar their plan. As they reluctantly
passed the spot they had marked out for their ambush, splashed
through the ford and breasted the rising ground beyond, they took
counsel. They determined to stand and meet this rash pursuer.
Trenchard calmly opined that if necessary they must shoot him; he was,
I fear, a bloody-minded fellow at bottom, although, it is true he
justified himself now by pointing out that this was no time to
hesitate at trifles. Partly because they talked and partly because
the gradient was steep and their horses needed breathing, they
slackened rein, and the horseman behind them came tearing through the
water of the ford and lessened the distance considerably in the next
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