| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Dethroned old gods and made blind beggars kings:
"And what art thou," I cried to one, "that brings
His mistress, for a brooch, the Galaxy?"--
"I am the plumed Thought that soars and sings:
Lo, I am Song; I bid thee follow me!"
The Hours passed by, with veiled eyes endowed
Of dream, and parted lips that scarce suspire,
To breathing dusk and arrowy moonlight vowed,
South wind and shadowy grove and murmuring
lyre;--
Swaying they moved, as drows'd of wizard spells
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: Thus George was safely started upon the same career as his
father, and this was to him a source of satisfaction which he did
not attempt to deny, either to himself of to any one else.
George was a cautious young man, who came of a frugal and saving
stock. He had always been taught that it was his primary duty to
make certain of a reasonable amount of comfort. From his
earliest days, he had been taught to regard material success as
the greatest goal in life, and he would never have dreamed of
engaging himself to a girl without money. But when he had the
good fortune to meet one who possessed desirable personal
qualities in addition to money, he was not in the least barred
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: character. Very graceful and sweet is the fable (if so it
should be called) in which the author sings the praises of
that 'kindly perspective,' which lets a wheat-stalk near the
eye cover twenty leagues of distant country, and makes the
humble circle about a man's hearth more to him than all the
possibilities of the external world. The companion fable to
this is also excellent. It tells us of a man who had, all
his life through, entertained a passion for certain blue
hills on the far horizon, and had promised himself to travel
thither ere he died, and become familiar with these distant
friends. At last, in some political trouble, he is banished
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