| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: "I can do my utmost to find out what is wrong with my world and rule
it and set it right."
"YOU! Alone."
"Other men do as much. Every one who does so helps others to do so.
You see-- . . . In this world one may wake in the night and one may
resolve to be a king, and directly one has resolved one is a king.
Does that sound foolishness to you? Anyhow, it's fair that I should
tell you, though you count me a fool. This--this kingship--this
dream of the night--is my life. It is the very core of me. Much
more than you are. More than anything else can be. I mean to be a
king in this earth. KING. I'm not mad. . . . I see the world
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: Nevertheless, these friends, enchanted to escape one evening a week in
the Cloister, the darkest, dreariest, and most out of the way corner
in Tours, blessed the poor vicar in their hearts.
Between persons who are perpetually in each other's company dislike or
love increases daily; every moment brings reasons to love or hate each
other more and more. The Abbe Birotteau soon became intolerable to
Mademoiselle Gamard. Eighteen months after she had taken him to board,
and at the moment when the worthy man was mistaking the silence of
hatred for the peacefulness of content, and applauding himself for
having, as he said, "managed matters so well with the old maid," he
was really the object of an underhand persecution and a vengeance
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott: of dashing waves came softly on the air. Soon troops of graceful
Spirits flitted by, and when they found the wondering Elf, they
gathered round him, bringing pearl-shells heaped with precious stones,
and all the rare, strange gifts that lie beneath the sea. But Thistle
wished for none of these, and when his tale was told, the kindly
Spirits pitied him; and little Pearl sighed, as she told him of the
long and weary task he must perform, ere he could win a crown of
snow-white pearls like those they wore. But Thistle had gained
strength and courage in his wanderings, and did not falter now, when
they led bim to a place among the coral-workers, and told him he must
labor here, till the spreading branches reached the light and air,
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