| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: [3] Al. "and further, to the maintenance of life she adds the sources
of pleasure in life."
[4] Lit. "she bears these and rears those."
And albeit she, good cateress, pours out her blessings upon us in
abundance, yet she suffers not her gifts to be received effeminately,
but inures her pensioners to suffer glady summer's heat and winter's
cold. Those that labour with their hands, the actual delvers of the
soil, she trains in a wrestling school of her own, adding strength to
strength; whilst those others whose devotion is confined to the
overseeing eye and to studious thought, she makes more manly, rousing
them with cock-crow, and compelling them to be up and doing in many a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: and de Maufrigneuse, and with the old Duchesse de Lenoncourt, and my
house has the reputation of being a very lively one. I allowed myself
to become the fashion, because I saw how much pleasure my success gave
Felipe. My mornings are his; from four in the afternoon till two in
the morning I belong to Paris. Macumer makes an admirable host, witty
and dignified, perfect in courtesy, and with an air of real
distinction. No woman could help loving such a husband even if she had
chosen him without consulting her heart.
My father and mother have left for Madrid. Louis XVIII. being out of
the way, the Duchess had no difficulty in obtaining from our good-
natured Charles X. the appointment of her fascinating poet; so he is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: That had been the text of the sermon a few weeks before.
Sleepily, heavily, he tried to fix his mind upon it and recall
it.
What was it that Doctor Snodgrass had said? Ah, yes--that it was
a mistake to pause here in reading the verse. We must read on
without
a pause--Lay not up treasures upon earth where moth and rust do
corrupt
and where thieves break through and steal--that was the true
doctrine.
We may have treasures upon earth, but they must not be put into
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