| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: claimed, in reply to all the reasons for faltering. "God will
protect our sacred Russia."
Michael was out of reach of the Usbeck horsemen. They
had not dared to pursue him through the river.
Once more on solid ground Michael stopped to consider
what he should do next. He wished to avoid Tomsk, now
occupied by the Tartar troops. Nevertheless, he must
reach some town, or at least a post-house, where he could
procure a horse. A horse once found, he would throw him-
self out of the beaten track, and not again take to the
Irkutsk road until in the neighborhood of Krasnoiarsk.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: But, wherever this nature of mine is most fair,
And its thoughts are the purest--belov'd, thou art there!
And whatever is noblest in aught that I do,
Is done to exalt and to worship thee too.
The world gave thee not to me, no! and the world
Cannot take thee away from me now. I have furl'd
The wings of my spirit above thy bright head;
At thy feet are my soul's immortalities spread.
Thou mightest have been to me much. Thou art more.
And in silence I worship, in darkness adore.
If life be not that which without us we find--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: fop, who is concerned about his person, is concerned with folly, with
petty things. And what is a woman? A petty thing, a bundle of follies.
With two words said to the winds, can you not make her busy for four
hours? She is sure that the fop will be occupied with her, seeing that
he has no mind for great things. She will never be neglected for
glory, ambition, politics, art--those prostitutes who for her are
rivals. Then fops have the courage to cover themselves with ridicule
in order to please a woman, and her heart is full of gratitude towards
the man who is ridiculous for love. In fine, a fop can be no fop
unless he is right in being one. It is women who bestow that rank. The
fop is love's colonel; he has his victories, his regiment of women at
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