| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: esse nolebant, portas clauserunt seque cum Viridovice coniunxerunt;
magnaque praeterea multitudo undique ex Gallia perditorum hominum
latronumque convenerat, quos spes praedandi studiumque bellandi ab agri
cultura et cotidiano labore revocabat. Sabinus idoneo omnibus rebus loco
castris sese tenebat, cum Viridovix contra eum duorum milium spatio
consedisset cotidieque productis copiis pugnandi potestatem faceret, ut
iam non solum hostibus in contemptionem Sabinus veniret, sed etiam
nostrorum militum vocibus non nihil carperetur; tantamque opinionem
timoris praebuit ut iam ad vallum castrorum hostes accedere auderent. Id
ea de causa faciebat quod cum tanta multitudine hostium, praesertim eo
absente qui summam imperii teneret, nisi aequo loco aut oportunitate
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: an't will. Ours is well-nigh out by the look o't."
"How dark 'tis now the fire's gone down!" said Christian Cantle,
looking behind him with his hare eyes. "Don't ye think we'd
better get home-along, neighbours? The heth isn't haunted,
I know; but we'd better get home....Ah, what was that?"
"Only the wind," said the turf-cutter.
"I don't think Fifth-of-Novembers ought to be kept up
by night except in towns. It should be by day in outstep,
ill-accounted places like this!"
"Nonsense, Christian. Lift up your spirits like a man! Susy,
dear, you and I will have a jig--hey, my honey?--before
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: companion, who had spoken so soberly, began to stumble and
waver by her side with the most airy divagations. Sometimes
he would get so close to her that she must edge away; and at
others lurch clear out of the track and plough among deep
heather. His courtesy and gravity meanwhile remained
unaltered. He asked her how far they had to go; whether the
way lay all upon the moorland, and when he learned they had
to pass a wood expressed his pleasure. 'For,' said he, 'I am
passionately fond of trees. Trees and fair lawns, if you
consider of it rightly, are the ornaments of nature, as
palaces and fine approaches - ' And here he stumbled into a
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