| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: and set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for
we are the sons of the sea.
No longer delay, let us hasten away in the
track of the sea-gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother,
the waves are our comrades all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun
where the hand of the sea-god drives?
He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide
in his breast our lives.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "He may be Knight of the Garter one day, for aught I know," said
Leicester, "for he advances rapidly--she hath capped verses with
him, and such fooleries. I would gladly abandon, of my own free
will, the part--I have in her fickle favour; but I will not be
elbowed out of it by the clown Sussex, or this new upstart. I
hear Tressilian is with Sussex also, and high in his favour. I
would spare him for considerations, but he will thrust himself on
his fate. Sussex, too, is almost as well as ever in his health."
"My lord," replied Varney, "there will be rubs in the smoothest
road, specially when it leads uphill. Sussex's illness was to us
a godsend, from which I hoped much. He has recovered, indeed,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: revenge. The Chouans then gained the road which skirted the fields and
took to the heights which Hulot had committed the blunder of
abandoning. Before the Blues had time to reform, the Chouans were
entrenched behind the rocks, where they could fire with impunity on
the Republicans if the latter made any attempt to dislodge them.
While Hulot and his soldiers went slowly towards the little wood to
meet Gudin, the men from Fougeres busied themselves in rifling the
dead Chouans and dispatching those who still lived. In this fearful
war neither party took prisoners. The marquis having made good his
escape, the Chouans and the Blues mutually recognized their respective
positions and the uselessness of continuing the fight; so that both
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