| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: white, rigid and silent that it made me shake in my shoes to look
at her.
"I have made a great blunder," she said to me, that evening; "and
it may set us back a little; but I shall recover my ground." Which
she did, I assure you. She cultivated the acquaintance of the
leaders of both parties, studied their tactics, and quietly waited
for a good opportunity to bring in her bill. At first, we thought
it would pass; but one of the male members presently came out with
a speech, which dashed our hopes to nothing. He simply took the
ground that there must be absolute equality in citizenship; that
every privilege was balanced by a duty, every trust accompanied
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: difference of system, but to the comparative reasonableness of
its laws and the mildness and judgment with which they are
enforced."
"My system is radically different from the old one. However, I
will not discuss the matter with you. A mind occupied with the
prejudices of the old coercive despotism can naturally only see
in the new a modification of the old, instead of, as my system
is, an entire reversal or abandonment of it."
He shook his head sadly and said: "You seek to impose your ideas
on others, ostracizing those who reject them. Believe me, mankind
has been doing nothing else ever since it began to pay some
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: would appear to expand like the buds at the approach of spring,
though they lay half smothered between two musty leaves in a
library--aye, to bloom and bear fruit there, after their kind,
annually, for the faithful reader, in sympathy with surrounding
Nature.
I do not know of any poetry to quote which adequately expresses
this yearning for the Wild. Approached from this side, the best
poetry is tame. I do not know where to find in any literature,
ancient or modern, any account which contents me of that Nature
with which even I am acquainted. You will perceive that I demand
something which no Augustan nor Elizabethan age, which no
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