| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: air.
"Madame," I replied, giving her a serious look, "I have enough in me
to conquer the world; but I am only twenty-one, and I am all alone."
She looked at her daughter with some astonishment. Evidently she
believed that Henriette had crushed my ambition in order to keep me
near her. The visit of Madame de Lenoncourt was a period of unrelieved
constraint. The countess begged me to be cautious; she was frightened
by the least kind word; to please her I wore the harness of deceit.
The great Thursday came; it was a day of wearisome ceremonial,--one of
those stiff days which lovers hate, when their chair is no longer in
its place, and the mistress of the house cannot be with them. Love has
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: might falter without shame. So there he sat (for he often took the
scout's place himself), looking out over the fantastic tropic
forest at his feet, and the flat mangrove-swamps below, and the
white sheet of foam-flecked blue; and yet no sail appeared; and the
men, as their fear of fever subsided, began to ask when they would
go down and refit the ship, and Amyas put them off as best he
could, till one noon he saw slipping along the shore from the
westward, a large ship under easy sail, and recognized in her, or
thought he did so, the ship which they had passed upon their way.
If it was she, she must have run past them to La Guayra in the
night, and have now returned, perhaps, to search for them along the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: Set a rogue to catch a rogue, they say, that is, we suppose, are formed
rogue. Anyway, it is so with us. These rough-and-ready warriors will
work shoulder to shoulder with them in the same manual employment.
They will engage in the task for love. This is a substantial part of
their religion, the moving instinct of the new heavenly nature that has
come upon them. They want to spend their lives in doing good.
Here will be an opportunity.
Then see how useful these Soldiers will be for distribution!
Every Salvation Officer and Soldier in every one of these 4,000
centres, scattered through these thirty odd countries and colonies,
with all their correspondents and friends and comrades living
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