| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: Look'st upon Alpine snows and frozen Rhine.
Ah! may the frost not hurt thee, may the sharp
And jagged ice not wound thy tender feet!
I will depart, re-tune the songs I framed
In verse Chalcidian to the oaten reed
Of the Sicilian swain. Resolved am I
In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
And bear my doom, and character my love
Upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
And you, my love, grow with them. And meanwhile
I with the Nymphs will haunt Mount Maenalus,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: He made a dark, powerful figure, and he fitted that wild
promontory.
She experienced a strange, annoying surprise when she discovered
both Helen and Dorothy watching Stewart with peculiar interest.
Edith, too, was alive to the splendid picture the cowboy made.
But when Edith smiled and whispered in her ear, "It's so good to
look at a man like that," Madeline again felt the surprise, only
this time the accompaniment was a vague pleasure rather than
annoyance. Helen and Dorothy were flirts, one deliberate and
skilled, the other unconscious and natural. Edith Wayne,
occasionally--and Madeline reflected that the occasions were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: students as follows:
"This is the second time I have attended the commencement
exercises of your school. I appreciate the good order I find
here. I rejoice at the evidences I see of your knowledge of the
proprieties, the depth of your learning, and the character of the
students of this institution. I am deeply grateful to the
president and faculty for the goodness manifested to these my
people. I have seen evidences of it in every detail. It is my
hope that when these graduates go out into the world, they will
remember the love of their teachers, and will practice that
virtue in their dealing with others. The fundamental principle of
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