| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: cibaria sibi quemque domo efferre iubent. Persuadent Rauracis et Tulingis
et Latobrigis finitimis, uti eodem usi consilio oppidis suis vicisque
exustis una cum iis proficiscantur, Boiosque, qui trans Rhenum incoluerant
et in agrum Noricum transierant Noreiamque oppugnabant, receptos ad se
socios sibi adsciscunt.
Erant omnino itinera duo, quibus itineribus domo exire possent: unum
per Sequanos, angustum et difficile, inter montem Iuram et flumen
Rhodanum, vix qua singuli carri ducerentur, mons autem altissimus
impendebat, ut facile perpauci prohibere possent; alterum per provinciam
nostram, multo facilius atque expeditius, propterea quod inter fines
Helvetiorum et Allobrogum, qui nuper pacati erant, Rhodanus fluit isque
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: pressed his hands with a more convulsive force upon his breast,
"I feel him still. It gnaws me! It gnaws me!"
From this time the miserable sufferer ceased to shun the world,
but rather solicited and forced himself upon the notice of
acquaintances and strangers. It was partly the result of
desperation on finding that the cavern of his own bosom had not
proved deep and dark enough to hide the secret, even while it was
so secure a fortress for the loathsome fiend that had crept into
it. But still more, this craving for notoriety was a symptom of
the intense morbidness which now pervaded his nature. All persons
chronically diseased are egotists, whether the disease be of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: Fyodorovitch, a tall, well-built man of fifty, clean-shaven, with
thick grey hair and black eyebrows, walks in. He is a
good-natured man and an excellent comrade. He comes of a
fortunate and talented old noble family which has played a
prominent part in the history of literature and enlightenment. He
is himself intelligent, talented, and very highly educated, but
has his oddities. To a certain extent we are all odd and all
queer fish, but in his oddities there is something exceptional,
apt to cause anxiety among his acquaintances. I know a good many
people for whom his oddities completely obscure his good
qualities.
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