| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Tranquilly he'll return to dine,
And, breathing forth a pious wish,
Will cram his belly full of fish.
Poem: III
The Abbot for a walk went out,
A wealthy cleric, very stout,
And Robin has that Abbot stuck
As the red hunter spears the buck.
The djavel or the javelin
Has, you observe, gone bravely in,
And you may hear that weapon whack
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: LEV 13:3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the
flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague
in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of
leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
LEV 13:4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in
sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned
white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven
days:
LEV 13:5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold,
if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in
the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
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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: be the finish and grace of the details, the beauty therein expressed
is not of the soul. These roses of deceptive youth will drop their
leaves, and you will be surprised in a few years to see hardness and
dryness where you once admired what seemed to be the beauty of noble
qualities.
Though the outlines of Natalie's face had something august about them,
her chin was slightly "empate,"--a painter's expression which will
serve to show the existence of sentiments the violence of which would
only become manifest in after life. Her mouth, a trifle drawn in,
expressed a haughty pride in keeping with her hand, her chin, her
brows, and her beautiful figure. And--as a last diagnostic to guide
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