| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: ice itself is full of dirt, of sand and stones, which it may have
brought from hundreds of miles away; and that, as this ploughshare
of dirty ice grubs onward, the nose of the plough is continually
being broken off, and left underneath the mud; and that, when
summer comes, and the ice melts, the mud falls back into the place
where the ice had been, and covers up the gravel which was in the
ice. So, what between the grubbing of the ice-plough into the
mud, and the dirt which it leaves behind when it melts, the
stones, and sand, and mud upon the shore are jumbled up into
curious curved and twisted layers, exactly like those which Mr.
Trimmer saw in certain gravel-pits. And when I first read about
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: dumbfounded. In his eyes convicts sent to the galleys for murder, or
aggravated robbery, or for putting a wrong name to checks, were saints
compared to the men and women of society. This atrocious elegy, forged
in the arsenal of lies, and steeped in the waters of the Parisian
Styx, had been poured into his ears with the inimitable accent of
truth. The grave author contemplated for a moment that adorable woman
lying back in her easy-chair, her two hands pendant from its arms like
dewdrops from a rose-leaf, overcome by her own revelation, living over
again the sorrows of her life as she told them--in short an angel of
melancholy.
"And judge," she cried, suddenly lifting herself with a spring and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: A little while, with love and youth,
He wandered, singing!
A little while, with age and death,
He wanders, dreaming;--
No more the thunder and the urge
Of earth's full tides that storm the verge
Of heaven with their sweep and surge
Shall lift, shall bear him on;
Where is the golden hope that led
Him comrade with the mighty dead?
The love that aureoled his head?--
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