| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: living thing, with its own mouth, and arms, and stomach, budding
and growing fresh live branches and fresh live flowers, as fast as
the old ones die: and then you will see better what I mean.
How wonderful!
Yes; but not more wonderful than your finger, for it, too, is made
up of numberless living things.
My finger made of living things?
What else can it be? When you cut your finger, does not the place
heal?
Of course.
And what is healing but growing again? And how could the atoms of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: Down, down, I say, prostrate thy self upon the ground.
AMADINE.
Then, Mucedorus, farewell; my hoped joys, farewell.
Yea, farewell life, and welcome present death!
[She kneels.]
To thee, O God, I yield my dying ghost.
BREMO.
Now, Bremo, play thy part.--
How now, what sudden chance is this?
My limbs do tremble and my sinews shake,
My unweakened arms have lost their former force:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: concerning that gentleman, and required information; and
Elizabeth had such to send as might rather give contentment to
her aunt than to herself. His apparent partiality had subsided, his
attentions were over, he was the admirer of some one else.
Elizabeth was watchful enough to see it all, but she could see it
and write of it without material pain. Her heart had been but
slightly touched, and her vanity was satisfied with believing that
SHE would have been his only choice, had fortune permitted it.
The sudden acquisition of ten thousand pounds was the
most remarkable charm of the young lady to whom he was now
rendering himself agreeable; but Elizabeth, less clear-sighted
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