The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: Playmate, join your allies!"
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Nest Eggs
Birds all the summer day
Flutter and quarrel
Here in the arbour-like
Tent of the laurel.
Here in the fork
The brown nest is seated;
For little blue eggs
The mother keeps heated.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: of Diou. We were told at this place that Alfonso Mendes, patriarch
of Aethiopia, was arrived at Goa from Lisbon. He wrote to us to
desire that we would wait for him at Diou, in order to embark there
for the Red Sea; but being informed by us that no opportunities of
going thither were to be expected at Diou, it was at length
determined that we should meet at Bazaim; it was no easy matter for
me to find means of going to Bazaim. However, after a very uneasy
voyage, in which we were often in danger of being dashed against the
rocks, or thrown upon the sands by the rapidity of the current, and
suffered the utmost distress for want of water, I landed at Daman, a
place about twenty leagues distant from Bazaim. Here I hire a catre
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: flows from a man, fittingly clothed in style and without
conscious effort, it is because the effort has been made and
the work practically completed before he sat down to write.
It is only out of fulness of thinking that expression drops
perfect like a ripe fruit; and when Thoreau wrote so
nonchalantly at his desk, it was because he had been
vigorously active during his walk. For neither clearness
compression, nor beauty of language, come to any living
creature till after a busy and a prolonged acquaintance with
the subject on hand. Easy writers are those who, like Walter
Scott, choose to remain contented with a less degree of
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