| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: The only wealth I have:
Just as they are, to you.
I speak the truth in soberness, and say
I had rather bring a light to your clear eyes,
Had rather hear you praise
This bosomful of songs
Than that the whole, hard world with one consent,
In one continuous chorus of applause
Poured forth for me and mine
The homage of ripe praise.
I write the finis here against my love,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: reassured him, declaring that the old spirit of opposition was as
strong as ever, only, instead of persecuting as heretofore, the
Academies of Medicine and of Sciences rang with laughter as they
classed magnetic facts with the tricks of Comus and Comte and Bosco,
with jugglery and prestidigitation and all that now went by the name
of "amusing physics."
This assurance did not prevent old Minoret from keeping the
appointment made for him by Bouvard. After an enmity of forty-four
years the two antagonists met beneath a porte-cochere in the Rue
Saint-Honore. Frenchmen have too many distractions of mind to hate
each other long. In Paris especially, politics, literature, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: to nothing but that; for, my dear, I know your choice would be
worthy of the Starks. And now--let me see his picture."
"Why, aunty!" said Molly.
"Well, I won't pretend to be supernatural," said the aunt, "but I
thought you kept one back when you were showing us those Western
views last night."
Now this was the precise truth. Molly had brought a number of
photographs from Wyoming to show to her friends at home. These,
however, with one exception, were not portraits. They were views
of scenery and of cattle round-ups, and other scenes
characteristic of ranch life. Of young men she had in her
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