| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
OXFORD. Every man's conscience is a thousand men,
To fight against this guilty homicide.
HERBERT. I doubt not but his friends will turn to us.
BLUNT. He hath no friends but what are friends for fear,
Which in his dearest need will fly from him.
RICHMOND. All for our vantage. Then in God's name march.
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. Exeunt
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: rheumaticky place in England, and some fine day the whole
habitable part (to call it habitable) would fetch away bodily
and go down the slope into the river. He had seen the cracks
widening; there was a plaguy issue in the bank below; he
thought a spring was mining it; it might be tomorrow, it
might be next day; but they were all sure of a come-down
sooner or later. 'And that is a poor death,' said he, 'for
any one, let alone a gentleman, to have a whole old ruin
dumped upon his belly. Have a care to your left there; these
cellar vaults have all broke down, and the grass and hemlock
hide 'em. Well, sir, here is welcome to you, such as it is,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: immediately to Lord Greystoke, or he must pay to the sailor,
as a price for permission to quit the Kincaid unmolested,
every cent of money and article of value upon his person
and in his cabin.
"And you'll have to make up your mind mighty quick,"
growled the man, "for I want to turn in. Come now, choose--
his lordship or the jungle?"
"You'll be sorry for this," grumbled the Russian.
"Shut up," admonished the sailor. "If you get funny I
may change my mind, and keep you here after all."
Now Paulvitch had no intention of permitting himself to
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