| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: And sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned
Union of mind, or in us both one soul;
Harmony to behold in wedded pair
More grateful than harmonious sound to the ear.
Yet these subject not; I to thee disclose
What inward thence I feel, not therefore foiled,
Who meet with various objects, from the sense
Variously representing; yet, still free,
Approve the best, and follow what I approve.
To love, thou blamest me not; for Love, thou sayest,
Leads up to Heaven, is both the way and guide;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: drawn and excessively arched--an eyebrow which, if ladies wrote
sonnets to those of their lovers, might have been made the subject
of such a piece of verse--and a light moustache that flourished
upwards as if blown that way by the breath of a constant smile.
There was something in his physiognomy at once benevolent
and picturesque. But, as I have hinted, it was not at all serious.
The young man's face was, in this respect, singular; it was not at
all serious, and yet it inspired the liveliest confidence.
"Be sure you put in plenty of snow," said his sister.
"Bonte divine, what a climate!"
"I shall leave the sketch all white, and I shall put in the little figures
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: the world. I saw so much of this, that the pity of it entered
deep into my boy-heart and never afterward could I forget it.
I talked with the station agent, the banker and the hotel
keeper. The station agent had money in the bank which he was
saving to educate his boy to be a telegrapher. He also carried
life insurance. "If I should die," he said, "my wife would
collect enough insurance to start a boarding-house. My boy would
have money enough to learn a trade. Then he could get as good a
job as I have." The hotel keeper told me that if he should die
his wife could run the hotel just the same, it being free of debt
and earning enough money so that she could hire a man to do the
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