| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: expectations. I went to the trouble of rearing them, with
disappointing results. Where shall I find again the wonderful
spectacle which the Cross Spider offered me by chance? I shall
find it--in an even more striking fashion--among humbler Spiders,
whom I had neglected to observe.
CHAPTER VIII: THE CRAB SPIDER
The Spider that showed me the exodus in all its magnificence is
known officially as Thomisus onustus, WALCK. Though the name
suggest nothing to the reader's mind, it has the advantage, at any
rate, of hurting neither the throat nor the ear, as is too often
the case with scientific nomenclature, which sounds more like
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: my trifle were hid; though, perhaps, a high nater is a
little high, and at my birth all things were possible to
my Maker, and he may have begrudged no gifts....
But under your bushel, Joseph! under your bushel with
"ee! A strange desire, neighbours, this desire to hide,
and no praise due. Yet there is a Sermon on the
Mount with a calendar of the blessed at the head, and
certain meek men may be named therein."
"Cainy's grandfather was a very clever man." said
Matthew Moon. "Invented a' apple-tree out of his own
head, which is called by his name to this day -- the Early
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: whose respect she had doubtless lost. Her secret conduct must have
inspired the stipulation of old Mathias; and Mathias must have
enlightened Paul. Horrible reflection! Even if he had not yet done so,
as soon as that contract was signed the old wolf would surely warn his
client of the dangers he had run and had now escaped, were it only to
receive the praise of his sagacity. He would put him on his guard
against the wily woman who had lowered herself to this conspiracy; he
would destroy the empire she had conquered over her son-in-law! Feeble
natures, once warned, turn obstinate, and are never won again. At the
first discussion of the contract she had reckoned on Paul's weakness,
and on the impossibility he would feel of breaking off a marriage so
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