| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac: on foot. By turns rough and kind, harsh and covetous on the
surface, but capable of offering his whole fortune to his exiled
masters--who did him the honor of accepting it for a few days--no
man ever gave rise to such contradictory judgements. Although to
obtain a black ribbon, which physicians ought not to intrigue
for, he was capable of dropping a prayer-book out of his pocket
at Court, in his heart he mocked at everything; he had a deep
contempt for men, after studying them from above and below, after
detecting their genuine expression when performing the most
solemn and the meanest acts of their lives.
The qualities of a great man are often federative. If among these
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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: publisher than any quantity of flat assertions.
There was once upon a time an editor of an important paper, a clever
writer with a prospect of becoming a statesman; he was young in those
days, and fond of pleasure, and he became the favorite of a well-known
publishing house. One Sunday the wealthy head of the firm was
entertaining several of the foremost journalists of the time in the
country, and the mistress of the house, then a young and pretty woman,
went to walk in her park with the illustrious visitor. The head-clerk
of the firm, a cool, steady, methodical German with nothing but
business in his head, was discussing a project with one of the
journalists, and as they chatted they walked on into the woods beyond
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: It seemed as if she had lost the power of saying anything else,
or even of varying the phrase which, with such effort, she had
compelled herself to utter.
"Heaven bless thee, my child!--Heaven bless thee!--And it WILL
bless thee with riches, with pleasure, with power."
Miss Vere faintly entreated to be left by herself for the rest of
the evening.
"But will you not receive Sir Frederick?" said her father,
anxiously.
"I will meet him," she replied, "I will meet him--when I must,
and where I must; but spare me now."
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