| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: Songs of rejoicin',
Oh, sing them again,
The brave songs of courage
Appealing to men.
Of hope in the future
Of heaven the goal;
The songs of rejoicin'
That strengthen the soul.
Another Mouth to Feed
We've got another mouth to feed,
From out our little store;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: She made no reply for a moment; then she turned a listless
glance to the rain-beaten window. "Oughtn't we be
starting?" she asked, with a lofty assumption of
indifference that might have been Lady Ulrica's.
Darrow, surprised by the change, but accepting her rebuff as
a phase of what he guessed to be a confused and tormented
mood, rose from his seat and lifted her jacket from the
chair-back on which she had hung it to dry. As he held it
toward her she looked up at him quickly.
"The truth is, we quarrelled," she broke out, "and I left
last night without my dinner--and without my salary."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: vegetation languish, the soil becomes poor, and the plants that
survive have a sickly growth. Nowhere have the great convulsions
of the globe left more evident traces than in the valley of the
Mississippi; the whole aspect of the country shows the powerful
effects of water, both by its fertility and by its barrenness.
The waters of the primeval ocean accumulated enormous beds of
vegetable mould in the valley, which they levelled as they
retired. Upon the right shore of the river are seen immense
plains, as smooth as if the husbandman had passed over them with
his roller. As you approach the mountains the soil becomes more
and more unequal and sterile; the ground is, as it were, pierced
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