| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: Hammond. The decision to go home came easily, naturally, she
thought, as the result of events. It caused her no mental
strife. Indeed, she fancied she felt relief. The great stars,
blinking white and cold over the dark crags, looked down upon
her, and, as always, after she had watched them for a while they
enthralled her. "Under Western stars," she mused, thinking a
little scornfully of the romantic destiny they had blazed for her
idle sentiment. But they were beautiful; they were speaking;
they were mocking; they drew her. "Ah!" she sighed. "It will
not be so very easy to leave them, after all."
Madeline closed and darkened the window. She struck a light. It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: suffer, and how hard it is to wait at my age, when every day takes
with it some hopes and some pleasures. Besides, the delicacy of my
conduct is a guarantee of the sincerity of my intentions. Have I
ever behaved as your creditor? You are like a citadel, and I am
not a young man. In answer to my appeals, you say your life is at
stake, and when I hear you, you make me believe it; but here I
sink into dark melancholy and doubts dishonorable to us both. You
seemed to me as sweet and innocent as you are lovely; but you
insist on destroying my convictions. Ask yourself!--You tell me
you bear a passion in your heart, an indomitable passion, but you
refuse to tell me the name of the man you love.--Is this natural?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: which I am acquainted, this is the only one in which no sort of
jealousy is felt at a further development of the industry.[4] I may go
a step farther; every proprietor of a farm will be able to tell you
exactly how many yoke of oxen are sufficient for the estate, and how
many farm hands. To send into the field more than the exact number
requisite every farmer would consider a dead loss.[5] But in silver
mining [operations] the universal complaint is the want of hands.
Indeed there is no analogy between this and other industries. With an
increase in the number of bronze-workers articles of bronze may become
so cheap that the bronze-worker has to retire from the field. And so
again with ironfounders. Or again, in a plethoric condition of the
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