| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: principle not to allow his pupil to be exposed to temptation.
Generally the young clerk was without money, or had so little that he
could not, if he would, give way to excess. During the last year, the
worthy Godeschal had made five or six parties of pleasure with Oscar,
defraying the expenses, for he felt that the rope by which he tethered
the young kid must be slackened. These "pranks," as he called them,
helped Oscar to endure existence, for there was little amusement in
breakfasting with his uncle Cardot, and still less in going to see his
mother, who lived even more penuriously than Desroches. Moreau could
not make himself familiar with Oscar as Godeschal could; and perhaps
that sincere friend to young Husson was behind Godeschal in these
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: She showed hers: he saw more wounds than one,
And blushing fled, and left her all alone.
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Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely pluck'd, soon vaded,
Pluck'd in the bud, and vaded in the spring!
Bright orient pearl, alack, too timely shaded!
Fair creature, kill'd too soon by death's sharp sting!
Like a green plum that hangs upon a tree,
And falls, through wind, before the fall should he.
I weep for thee, and yet no cause I have;
For why thou left'st me nothing in thy will:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a
desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and
oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and
justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose
governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of
interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a
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