| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: a compluribus insulae civitatibus ad eum legati veniunt, qui polliceantur
obsides dare atque imperio populi Romani obtemperare. Quibus auditis,
liberaliter pollicitus hortatusque ut in ea sententia permanerent, eos
domum remittit et cum iis una Commium, quem ipse Atrebatibus superatis
regem ibi constituerat, cuius et virtutem et consilium probabat et quem
sibi fidelem esse arbitrabatur cuiusque auctoritas in his regionibus magni
habebatur, mittit. Huic imperat quas possit adeat civitates horteturque
ut populi Romani fidem sequantur seque celeriter eo venturum nuntiet.
Volusenus perspectis regionibus omnibus quantum ei facultatis dari potuit,
qui navi egredi ac se barbaris committere non auderet, V. die ad Caesarem
revertitur quaeque ibi perspexisset renuntiat.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: to his eyes and his lower jaw began to quiver rapidly. He
stopped speaking and only gulped down the risings in his
throat. 'Seems I was badly frightened and have gone quite
weak,' he thought. But this weakness was not only unpleasant,
but gave him a peculiar joy such as he had never felt before.
'That's our way!' he said to himself, experiencing a strange
and solemn tenderness. He lay like that for a long time,
wiping his eyes on the fur of his coat and tucking under his
knee the right skirt, which the wind kept turning up.
But he longed so passionately to tell somebody of his joyful
condition that he said: 'Nikita!'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: settling upon them, which Mrs. Smith considered could be done by
new furniture and house enlargement alone.
'And, John, mind one thing,' she said in conclusion. 'In writing
to Stephen, never by any means mention the name of Elfride
Swancourt again. We've left the place, and know no more about her
except by hearsay. He seems to be getting free of her, and glad
am I for it. It was a cloudy hour for him when he first set eyes
upon the girl. That family's been no good to him, first or last;
so let them keep their blood to themselves if they want to. He
thinks of her, I know, but not so hopelessly. So don't try to
know anything about her, and we can't answer his questions. She
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