| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: VOUS SERVIR, BLAIR DE BALMILE TOUT COURT.' [My lord, I have
not the effrontery to cumber myself with a title which the
ill fortunes of my king will not suffer me to bear the way it
should be. I call myself, at your service, plain Blair of
Balmile.]
'MONSIEUR LE VICOMTE OU MONSIEUR BLER' DE BALMAIL,' replied
the newcomer, 'LE NOM N'Y FAIT RIEN, ET L'ON CONNAIT VOS
BEAUX FAITS.' [The name matters nothing, your gallant
actions are known.]
A few more ceremonies, and these three, sitting down together
to the table, called for wine. It was the happiness of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: isn't so, nohow.'
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might
be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't.
That's logic.'
`I was thinking,' Alice said very politely, `which is the best
way out of this wood: it's getting so dark. Would you tell me,
please?'
But the little men only looked at each other and grinned.
They looked so exactly like a couple of great schoolboys, that
Alice couldn't help pointing her finger at Tweedledum, and saying
`First Boy!'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both,
And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath;
But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth
A vengeful canker eat him up to death.
More flowers I noted, yet I none could see,
But sweet, or colour it had stol'n from thee.
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Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long,
To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?
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