| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Of one I dan'st withall.
One cals within, Iuliet.
Nur. Anon, anon:
Come let's away, the strangers all are gone.
Exeunt.
Chorus. Now old desire doth in his death bed lie,
And yong affection gapes to be his Heire,
That faire, for which Loue gron'd for and would die,
With tender Iuliet matcht, is now not faire.
Now Romeo is beloued, and Loues againe,
A like bewitched by the charme of lookes:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: article for the young housekeeper. Now a bag of remarkable
clothespins, next, a wonderful nutmeg grater which fell to pieces at the
first trial, a knife cleaner that spoiled all the knives, or a
sweeper that picked the nap neatly off the carpet and left the dirt,
labor-saving soap that took the skin off one's hands, infallible
cements which stuck firmly to nothing but the fingers of the
deluded buyer, and every kind of tinware, from a toy savings bank for
odd pennies, to a wonderful boiler which would wash articles in its
own steam with every prospect of exploding in the process.
In vain Meg begged him to stop. John laughed at him, and Jo called
him `Mr. Toodles'. He was possessed with a mania for patronizing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: "I see it," said the sheriff; "and God be thanked for his absence."
Young Gamwell stood at the foot of the ladder. The friar approached him,
opened his book, groaned, turned up the whites of his eyes,
tossed up his arms in the air, and said "Dominus vobiscum."
He then crossed both his hands on his breast under the folds
of his holy robes, and stood a few moments as if in inward prayer.
A deep silence among the attendant crowd accompanied this action
of the friar; interrupted only by the hollow tone of the death-bell,
at long and dreary intervals. Suddenly the friar threw off
his holy robes, and appeared a forester clothed in green,
with a sword in his right hand and a horn in his left.
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