| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: speed, he pressed on till the foot of the mountain stopped his
course.
Here he recollected himself, and smiled at his own useless
impetuosity. Then raising his eyes to the mountain, "This," said
he, "is the fatal obstacle that hinders at once the enjoyment of
pleasure and the exercise of virtue. How long is it that my hopes
and wishes have flown beyond this boundary of my life, which yet I
never have attempted to surmount?"
Struck with this reflection, he sat down to muse, and remembered
that since he first resolved to escape from his confinement, the
sun had passed twice over him in his annual course. He now felt a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: the kingdom, Pelias my uncle, and fulfil your promise as I
have fulfilled mine.'
Then his father clung to him like a child, and wept, and
would not let him go; and cried, 'Now I shall not go down
lonely to my grave. Promise me never to leave me till I
die.'
PART VI - WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES
AND now I wish that I could end my story pleasantly; but it
is no fault of mine that I cannot. The old songs end it
sadly, and I believe that they are right and wise; for though
the heroes were purified at Malea, yet sacrifices cannot make
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: soldier, he believed they were right to resent the difference. He felt
himself a little in the wrong, for having all the advantages.
Nevertheless he represented a system, and he would not be shoved out.
Except by death. Which came on him soon after Connie's call, suddenly.
And he remembered Clifford handsomely in his will.
The heirs at once gave out the order for the demolishing of Shipley. It
cost too much to keep up. No one would live there. So it was broken up.
The avenue of yews was cut down. The park was denuded of its timber,
and divided into lots. It was near enough to Uthwaite. In the strange,
bald desert of this still-one-more no-man's-land, new little streets of
semi-detacheds were run up, very desirable! The Shipley Hall Estate!
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