| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: power, but to no purpose. I talked to her of Henry. "Dear
Eloisa (said I) there's no occasion for your crying so much about
such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order
to comfort her) I beg you would not mind it--You see it does not
vex me in the least; though perhaps I may suffer most from it
after all; for I shall not only be obliged to eat up all the
Victuals I have dressed already, but must if Henry should recover
(which however is not very likely) dress as much for you again;
or should he die (as I suppose he will) I shall still have to
prepare a Dinner for you whenever you marry any one else. So you
see that tho' perhaps for the present it may afflict you to think
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: with expectation.
Jean saw her first. "There she is!" he cried. Luc added: "Yes,
there she is."
While yet some distance off she laughed at seeing them. Then she
cried:
"Is everything going as you like it?"
And in unison they asked:
"Are you getting on all right?"
Then she conversed, talked to them of simple things in which they
felt an interest--of the weather, of the crops, and of her
master.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: at the heart of it all--and within all the frantic external
strife and warfare--there is all the time this real great life
brooding. The kingdom of Heaven, as we said before, is still
within.
The word Democracy indicates something of the kind--the
rule of the Demos, that is of the common life. The coming of
that will transform, not only our Markets and our Law Courts
and our sense of Property, and other institutions, into something
really great and glorious instead of the dismal masses of
rubbish which they at present are; but it will transform our
sense of Morality.
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