| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: of work. The greater part of his business was conducted by word of
mouth, and he seldom encountered difficulties. Like all thoughtful
people he was a great observer; he let people talk, and then studied
them. He often refused advantageous bargains on which his neighbors
pounced; later, when they regretted them, they declared that
Pillerault had "a nose for swindlers." He preferred small and certain
gains to bold strokes which put large sums of money in jeopardy. He
dealt in cast-iron chimney backs, gridirons, coarse fire-dogs, kettles
and boilers in cast or wrought iron, hoes, and all the agricultural
implements of the peasantry. This line, which was sufficiently
unremunerative, required an immense mechanical toil. The gains were
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: EPIMETHEUS.
Thy face is fair;
There is a wonder in thine azure eyes
That fascinates me. Thy whole presence seems
A soft desire, a breathing thought of love.
Say, would thy star like Merope's grow dim
If thou shouldst wed beneath thee?
PANDORA.
Ask me not;
I cannot answer thee. I only know
The Gods have sent me hither.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: And turn the giddy round of Fortune's wheel;
'To show the beldame daughters of her daughter,
To make the child a man, the man a child,
To slay the tiger that doth live by slaughter,
To tame the unicorn and lion wild,
To mock the subtle, in themselves beguil'd;
To cheer the ploughman with increaseful crops,
And waste huge stones with little water-drops.
'Why work'st thou mischief in thy pilgrimage,
Unless thou couldst return to make amends?
One poor retiring minute in an age
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