| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: did from Albert's letter to Leopold how deeply the Vicar-General had
pledged himself.
Four days after, the Abbe de Grancey called very early one morning on
Albert de Savarus, having announced his visit the day before. The old
priest had come to win over the great lawyer to the house of the
Wattevilles, a proceeding which shows how much tact and subtlety
Rosalie must have employed in an underhand way.
"What can I do for you, Monsieur le Vicaire-General?" asked Savarus.
The Abbe, who told his story with admirable frankness, was coldly
heard by Albert.
"Monsieur l'Abbe," said he, "it is out of the question that I should
Albert Savarus |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: cannot be at rest, than improve their condition by
vigour and resolution.
Providence has fixed the limits of human
enjoyment by immoveable boundaries, and has set
different gratifications at such a distance from each other,
that no art or power can bring them together. This
great law it is the business of every rational being
to understand, that life may not pass away in an
attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine
opposite qualities, and to unite things which
the nature of their being must always keep asunder.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: methinks, is the court of Olympian Zeus within, for the
world of things that are here; wonder comes over me as I
look thereon.'
And as he spake Menelaus of the fair hair was ware of him,
and uttering his voice spake to them winged words:
'Children dear, of a truth no one of mortal men may contend
with Zeus, for his mansions and his treasures are
everlasting: but of men there may be who will vie with me
in treasure, or there may be none. Yea, for after many a
woe and wanderings manifold, I brought my wealth home in
ships, and in the eighth year came hither. I roamed over
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