The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: Enter MISS HARDCASTLE.
MISS HARDCASTLE. Let it be short, then. I'm in a hurry. (Aside.) I
believe be begins to find out his mistake. But it's too soon quite to
undeceive him.
MARLOW. Pray, child, answer me one question. What are you, and what
may your business in this house be?
MISS HARDCASTLE. A relation of the family, sir.
MARLOW. What, a poor relation.
MISS HARDCASTLE. Yes, sir. A poor relation, appointed to keep the
keys, and to see that the guests want nothing in my power to give them.
MARLOW. That is, you act as the bar-maid of this inn.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: rock. Towards high-water it had a very grand and wonderful
appearance. Waves of considerable magnitude rose as high as
the solid or level of the entrance-door, which, being open to
the south-west, was fortunately to the leeward; but on the
windward side the sprays flew like lightning up the sloping
sides of the building; and although the walls were now
elevated sixty-four feet above the rock, and about fifty-two
feet from high-water mark, yet the artificers were
nevertheless wetted, and occasionally interrupted, in their
operations on the top of the walls. These appearances were,
in a great measure, new at the Bell Rock, there having till of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Either because the self-same sun, returning
Under the lands, aspires to seize the sky,
Striving to set it blazing with his rays
Ere he himself appear, or else because
Fires then will congregate and many seeds
Of heat are wont, even at a fixed time,
To stream together- gendering evermore
New suns and light. Just so the story goes
That from the Idaean mountain-tops are seen
Dispersed fires upon the break of day
Which thence combine, as 'twere, into one ball
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