| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: "I feel as you do," said Ruth. "I would never consent to be your
wife, if I could really divide you. I love you both too well for
that."
"Do you love me?" he asked, entirely forgetting his representative
part.
Again the reproachful look, which faded away as she met his eyes.
She fell upon his breast, and gave him kisses which were answered
with equal tenderness. Suddenly he covered his face with his
hands, and burst into a passion of tears.
"Jonathan! Oh Jonathan!" she cried, weeping with alarm and
sympathetic pain.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac: morning, maitre."
Porbus bowed respectfully, and made way for his guest, allowing the
youth to pass in at the same time, under the impression that he came
with the old man, and taking no further notice of him; all the less
perhaps because the neophyte stood still beneath the spell which holds
a heaven-born painter as he sees for the first time an atelier filled
with the materials and instruments of his art. Daylight came from a
casement in the roof and fell, focussed as it were, upon a canvas
which rested on an easel in the middle of the room, and which bore, as
yet, only three or four chalk lines. The light thus concentrated did
not reach the dark angles of the vast atelier; but a few wandering
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: waves would float for a less time than those protected from violent
movement as in our experiments. Therefore it would perhaps be safer to
assume that the seeds of about 10/100 plants of a flora, after having been
dried, could be floated across a space of sea 900 miles in width, and would
then germinate. The fact of the larger fruits often floating longer than
the small, is interesting; as plants with large seeds or fruit could hardly
be transported by any other means; and Alph. de Candolle has shown that
such plants generally have restricted ranges.
But seeds may be occasionally transported in another manner. Drift timber
is thrown up on most islands, even on those in the midst of the widest
oceans; and the natives of the coral-islands in the Pacific, procure stones
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