| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: under it.
We carried him into a peasant's cottage, and there, amid the
moans wrung from him by horrible sufferings, he contrived to give
me a commission--a sacred task, in that it was laid upon me by a
dying man's last wish. Poor boy, all through his agony he was
torturing himself in his young simplicity of heart with the
thought of the painful shock to his mistress when she should
suddenly read of his death in a newspaper. He begged me to go
myself to break the news to her. He bade me look for a key which
he wore on a ribbon about his neck. I found it half buried in the
flesh, but the dying boy did not utter a sound as I extricated it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: The most I said was that he was no doubt not a woman's poet:
to which she rejoined aptly enough that he had been at least
Miss Bordereau's. The strange thing had been for me to discover
in England that she was still alive: it was as if I had been told
Mrs. Siddons was, or Queen Caroline, or the famous Lady Hamilton,
for it seemed to me that she belonged to a generation as extinct.
"Why, she must be tremendously old--at least a hundred," I had said;
but on coming to consider dates I saw that it was not strictly
necessary that she should have exceeded by very much the common span.
Nonetheless she was very far advanced in life, and her relations with
Jeffrey Aspern had occurred in her early womanhood. "That is her excuse,"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: me.
PSA 40:14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after
my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that
wish me evil.
PSA 40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say
unto me, Aha, aha.
PSA 40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let
such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
PSA 40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou
art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
PSA 41:1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver
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