| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: He returned to her, and had the unspeakable joy of seeing her wag her
tail with an almost imperceptible movement at his approach. He sat
down then, without fear, by her side, and they began to play together;
he took her paws and muzzle, pulled her ears, rolled her over on her
back, stroked her warm, delicate flanks. She let him do what ever he
liked, and when he began to stroke the hair on her feet she drew her
claws in carefully.
The man, keeping the dagger in one hand, thought to plunge it into the
belly of the too confiding panther, but he was afraid that he would be
immediately strangled in her last convulsive struggle; besides, he
felt in his heart a sort of remorse which bid him respect a creature
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: Guarded by an Angel mild:
Witless woe was ne'er beguiled!
And I wept both night and day,
And he wiped my tears away;
And I wept both day and night,
And hid from him my heart's delight.
So he took his wings, and fled;
Then the morn blushed rosy red.
I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten thousand shields and spears.
Soon my Angel came again;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: premi videbatur, eo occurrere et auxilium ferre, sed hoc superari quod
diuturnitate pugnae hostes defessi proelio excedebant, alii integris
viribus succedebant; quarum rerum a nostris propter paucitatem fieri nihil
poterat, ac non modo defesso ex pugna excedendi, sed ne saucio quidem eius
loci ubi constiterat relinquendi ac sui recipiendi facultas dabatur.
Cum iam amplius horis sex continenter pugnaretur, ac non solum vires
sed etiam tela nostros deficerent, atque hostes acrius instarent
languidioribusque nostris vallum scindere et fossas complere coepissent,
resque esset iam ad extremum perducta casum, P. Sextius Baculus, primi
pili centurio, quem Nervico proelio compluribus confectum vulneribus
diximus, et item C. Volusenus, tribunus militum, vir et consilii magni et
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