| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: But mighty bulwarks fence that plainer part,
So art helps nature, nature strengtheneth art.
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The town is stored of troughs and cisterns, made
To keep fresh water, but the country seems
Devoid of grass, unfit for ploughmen's trade,
Not fertile, moist with rivers, wells and streams;
There grow few trees to make the summer's shade,
To shield the parched land from scorching beams,
Save that a wood stands six miles from the town,'
With aged cedars dark, and shadows brown.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Ibi cum alii fossas complerent, alii multis telis coniectis defensores
vallo munitionibusque depellerent, auxiliaresque, quibus ad pugnam non
multum Crassus confidebat, lapidibus telisque subministrandis et ad
aggerem caespitibus comportandis speciem atque opinionem pugnantium
praeberent, cum item ab hostibus constanter ac non timide pugnaretur
telaque ex loco superiore missa non frustra acciderent, equites circumitis
hostium castris Crasso renuntiaverunt non eadem esse diligentia ab
decumana porta castra munita facilemque aditum habere.
Crassus equitum praefectos cohortatus, ut magnis praemiis
pollicitationibusque suos excitarent, quid fieri vellet ostendit. Illi,
ut erat imperatum, eductis iis cohortibus quae praesidio castris relictae
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: but I always hoped you would tell me, if you thought I
was doing wrong."
"And so I should, my dear, you may depend on it; for as I
told Mrs. Morland at parting, I would always do the best
for you in my power. But one must not be over particular.
Young people will be young people, as your good mother
says herself. You know I wanted you, when we first came,
not to buy that sprigged muslin, but you would.
Young people do not like to be always thwarted."
"But this was something of real consequence; and I
do not think you would have found me hard to persuade."
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