| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: against the shafts of malice or misfortune, by invulnerable
patience: concluding that this state only was happiness, and that
this happiness was in every one's power.
Rasselas listened to him with the veneration due to the
instructions of a superior being, and waiting for him at the door,
humbly implored the liberty of visiting so great a master of true
wisdom. The lecturer hesitated a moment, when Rasselas put a purse
of gold into his hand, which he received with a mixture of joy and
wonder.
"I have found," said the Prince at his return to Imlac, "a man who
can teach all that is necessary to be known; who, from the unshaken
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: she remind you of Mrs. Scott-Siddons when she reads
`Lady Geraldine's Courtship'? Did you never hear her?"
Archer was dealing hurriedly with crowding thoughts.
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled
before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he
saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing
was ever to happen. He glanced about him at the
unpruned garden, the tumble-down house, and the oak-
grove under which the dusk was gathering. It had
seemed so exactly the place in which he ought to have
found Madame Olenska; and she was far away, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: flowers on us as we passed, and cried, 'Welcome, princess!
Welcome, Otomie, princess of the Otomie!' And when at length we
reached the great square, it seemed as though all the men in
Anahuac were gathered there, and they too took up the cry of
'Welcome, Otomie, princess of the Otomie!' till the earth shook
with the sound. Me also they saluted as I passed, by touching the
earth with their right hands and then holding the hand above the
head, but I think that the horse I rode caused them more wonder
than I did, for the most of them had never seen a horse and looked
on it as a monster or a demon. So we went on through the shouting
mass, followed and preceded by thousands of warriors, many of them
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