| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: Their body is more fitter for the wars,
And if that famine chance to pinch their maws,
Being used to fast it breeds less pain.
HALES.
Fill me some Wine: I'll answer Cardinal Wolsey.
My Lord, we English are of more freer souls
Than hungerstarved and ill complexioned spaniards.
They that are rich in Spain spare belly food,
To deck their backs with an Italian hood,
And Silks of Civil: And the poorest Snake,
That feeds on Lemons, Pilchers, and near heated
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: who had a countenance so terrible that the Tailor's skin quivered
and shrivelled, and his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth at
the sight of it.
"Who are thou?" said the terrible being, in a voice that made the
very marrow of the poor Tailor's bones turn soft from terror.
"If you please, sir," said he, "I am only a little tailor."
The evil being lifted up both hands and eyes. "How wonderful," he
cried, "that one little tailor can undo in a moment that which
took the wise Solomon a whole day to accomplish, and in the doing
of which he wellnigh broke the sinews of his heart!" Then,
turning to the Tailor, who stood trembling like a rabbit, "Hark
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: though my impertinent sister, I believe, wanted only opportunity for doing
so. Everything, however, was going on calmly and quietly; and, though I
counted the hours of Sir James's stay, my mind was entirely satisfied with
the posture of affairs. Guess, then, what I must feel at the sudden
disturbance of all my schemes; and that, too, from a quarter where I had
least reason to expect it. Reginald came this morning into my dressing-room
with a very unusual solemnity of countenance, and after some preface
informed me in so many words that he wished to reason with me on the
impropriety and unkindness of allowing Sir James Martin to address my
daughter contrary to her inclinations. I was all amazement. When I found
that he was not to be laughed out of his design, I calmly begged an
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