| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: 'T were better for us all to do away
With weeping, and be glad that he is gone.
XIII
Still through the dusk of dead, blank-legended,
And unremunerative years we search
To get where life begins, and still we groan
Because we do not find the living spark
Where no spark ever was; and thus we die,
Still searching, like poor old astronomers
Who totter off to bed and go to sleep,
To dream of untriangulated stars.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: suspend their banter and look twice before they condemned her.
Lucien did not foresee the change in Louise's appearance shortly to be
worked by a scarf about her throat, a pretty dress, an elegant
coiffure, and Mme. d'Espard's advice. As they came up the staircase
even now, the Marquise told her cousin not to hold her handkerchief
unfolded in her hand. Good or bad taste turns upon hundreds of such
almost imperceptible shades, which a quick-witted woman discerns at
once, while others will never grasp them. Mme. de Bargeton,
plentifully apt, was more than clever enough to discover her
shortcomings. Mme. d'Espard, sure that her pupil would do her credit,
did not decline to form her. In short, the compact between the two
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: up in astonishment as the men came in.
"Who's this you're bringing in, George?" asked Nanette.
"He's a peddler and he's got some trifles here you might like to
look at."
"Why, yes, you wanted a thimble, didn't you, Lena?" asked Nanette,
and the cook beckoned to the peddler. "Let's see what you've got
there," she said in a friendly tone. The old man pulled out his
wares from his pack; thimbles and scissors, coloured ribbons, silks,
brushes and combs, and many other trifles. When the women had made
their several selections they noticed that the old man was shivering
with the cold, as he leaned against the stove. Their sympathies
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