| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: But if I stand to count them sand by sand,
The number would confound my memory,
And make a thousand millions of a task,
Which briefly is no more, indeed, than one.
These quarters, squadrons, and these regiments,
Before, behind us, and on either hand,
Are but a power. When we name a man,
His hand, his foot, his head hath several strengths;
And being all but one self instant strength,
Why, all this many, Audley, is but one,
And we can call it all but one man's strength.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: Now I peered into the man's face bewildered. I had seized de
Garcia, but the voice was not his voice, nor was the face his face,
but that of a rough Spanish soldier.
'Who are you?' I asked, slackening my hold. 'Where is de Garcia--
he whom you name Sarceda?'
'Sarceda? I don't know. A minute ago he was on his back on the
causeway. The fellow pulled me down and rolled behind me. Let me
be I say. I am not Sarceda, and if I were, is this a time to
settle private quarrels? I am your comrade, Bernal Diaz. Holy
Mother! who are you? An Aztec who speaks Castilian?'
'I am no Aztec,' I answered. 'I am an Englishman and I fight with
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: he repeated several prayers that I did not heed.
"We will go to Venice!" I said, when he rose.
"Then I have found a man!" he cried, with his face on fire.
I gave him my arm and went home with him. We reached the gates of the
Blind Asylum just as some of the wedding guests were returning along
the street, shouting at the top of their voices. He squeezed my hand.
"Shall we start to-morrow?" he asked.
"As soon as we can get some money."
"But we can go on foot. I will beg. I am strong, and you feel young
when you see gold before you."
Facino Cane died before the winter was out after a two months'
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