| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: at all inclined to throw himself into this lake.
The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously, amid favourable
weather and propitious winds, and they soon came in sight of
the great Andaman, the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal,
with its picturesque Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred feet high,
looming above the waters. The steamer passed along near the shores,
but the savage Papuans, who are in the lowest scale of humanity,
but are not, as has been asserted, cannibals, did not make their appearance.
The panorama of the islands, as they steamed by them, was superb.
Vast forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teakwood, of the gigantic mimosa,
and tree-like ferns covered the foreground, while behind, the graceful outlines
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: The other maidens raised their eyes to see
And only she has hid her face away,
And yet I ween she loved him more than they,
And very fairly fashioned was her face.
Yet for Love's shame and sweet humility,
She dared not meet him with their queenlike grace.
To an Aeolian Harp
The winds have grown articulate in thee,
And voiced again the wail of ancient woe
That smote upon the winds of long ago:
The cries of Trojan women as they flee,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: man. For there is nought which earth displays with intent to deceive,
but in clear and simple language stamped with the seal of truth she
informs us what she can and cannot do.[13] Thus it has ever seemed to
me that earth is the best discoverer of true honesty,[14] in that she
offers all her stores of knowledge in a shape accessible to the
learner, so that he who runs may read. Here it is not open to the
sluggard, as in other arts, to put forward the plea of ignorance or
lack of knowledge, for all men know that earth, if kindly treated,
will repay in kind. No! there is no witness[15] against a coward soul
so clear as that of husbandry;[16] since no man ever yet persuaded
himself that he could live without the staff of life. He therefore
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