| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: The dark world lay still, in a sort of sweet swoon,
Wide open to heaven; and the stars on the stream
Were trembling like eyes that are loved on the dream
Of a lover; and all things were glad and at rest
Save the unquiet heart in his own troubled breast.
He endeavor'd to think--an unwonted employment,
Which appear'd to afford him no sort of enjoyment.
III.
"Withdraw into yourself. But, if peace you seek there for,
Your reception, beforehand, be sure to prepare for,"
Wrote the tutor of Nero; who wrote, be it said,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance
in Office.
Section 7. All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the
House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with
Amendments as on other Bills.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and
the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the
President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it,
but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House
in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections
at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: days.
[Monday, 27th Aug.]
The sash-frames of the light-room, eight in number, and
weighing each 254 pounds, having been got safely up to the top
of the building, were ranged on the balcony in the order in
which they were numbered for their places on the top of the
parapet-wall; and the balance-crane, that useful machine
having now lifted all the heavier articles, was unscrewed and
lowered, to use the landing-master's phrase, `in mournful
silence.'
[Sunday, 2nd Sept.]
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