| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: Catherine de Vausselles, for whom he entertained a short-
lived affection and an enduring and most unmanly resentment;
Regnier de Montigny, a young blackguard of good birth; and
Colin de Cayeux, a fellow with a marked aptitude for picking
locks. Now we are on a foundation of mere conjecture, but it
is at least curious to find that two of the canons of Saint
Benoit answered respectively to the names of Pierre de Vaucel
and Etienne de Montigny, and that there was a householder
called Nicolas de Cayeux in a street - the Rue des Poirees -
in the immediate neighbourhood of the cloister. M. Longnon
is almost ready to identify Catherine as the niece of Pierre;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Carved its framework out of linden,
Bound it strong with reindeer sinews;
He it was who taught him later
How to make his bows and arrows,
How to make the bows of ash-tree,
And the arrows of the oak-tree.
So among the guests assembled
At my Hiawatha's wedding
Sat Iagoo, old and ugly,
Sat the marvellous story-teller.
And they said, "O good Iagoo,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Now, why have I called this book 'The Heroes'? Because that
was the name which the Hellens gave to men who were brave and
skilful, and dare do more than other men. At first, I think,
that was all it meant: but after a time it came to mean
something more; it came to mean men who helped their country;
men in those old times, when the country was half-wild, who
killed fierce beasts and evil men, and drained swamps, and
founded towns, and therefore after they were dead, were
honoured, because they had left their country better than
they found it. And we call such a man a hero in English to
this day, and call it a 'heroic' thing to suffer pain and
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