| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: was as one from the grave.
In truth, Philip had given Emilia his heart to play with at
Neuchatel, that he might beguile her from an attachment they
had all regretted. The device succeeded. The toy once in her
hand, the passionate girl had kept it, had clung to him with
all her might; he could not shake her off. Nor was this the
worst, for to his dismay he found himself responding to her
love with a self-abandonment of ardor for which all former
loves had been but a cool preparation. He had not intended
this; it seemed hardly his fault: his intentions had been
good, or at least not bad. This piquant and wonderful fruit of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: JOS 19:48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan
according to their families, these cities with their villages.
JOS 19:49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for
inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance
to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
JOS 19:50 According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city
which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the
city, and dwelt therein.
JOS 19:51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and
Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the
children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: that at this period the number of private equipages, though
infinitely fewer than they are now, exceeded the number of hired
ones), and proposed going by water. This, however, did not suit
the kinsman's views; and, after pretending to send for a carriage
(which was in waiting at the end of the street), Stanton and his
companions entered it, and drove about two miles out of London.
* Rochefoucauld.
The carriage then stopped. Come, Cousin," said the younger
Stanton,--"come and view a purchase I have made." Stanton absently
alighted, and followed him across a small paved court; the other
person followed. "In troth, Cousin," said Stanton, "your choice
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