| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott: It was the morning song of the bees.
"Awake! awake! for the earliest gleam
Of golden sunlight shines
On the rippling waves, that brightly flow
Beneath the flowering vines.
Awake! awake! for the low, sweet chant
Of the wild-birds' morning hymn
Comes floating by on the fragrant air,
Through the forest cool and dim;
Then spread each wing,
And work, and sing,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: perpetrated the appearance of private animosity, or love of
plunder; and Earnscliff was now disposed to regard it as a
symptom of civil war. The young gentleman greeted Hobbie with
the most sincere sympathy, and informed him of the news he had
received.
"Then, may I never stir frae the bit," said Elliot, "if auld
Ellieslaw is not at the bottom o' the haill villainy! Ye see
he's leagued wi' the Cumberland Catholics; and that agrees weel
wi' what Elshie hinted about Westburnflat, for Ellieslaw aye
protected him, and he will want to harry and disarm the country
about his ain hand before he breaks out."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson: transmigrates bodily into the views of others, and so, in the
twinkling of an eye and with a heady rapture, turns questions
inside out and flings them empty before you on the ground, like a
triumphant conjuror. It is my common practice when a piece of
conduct puzzles me, to attack it in the presence of Jack with such
grossness, such partiality and such wearing iteration, as at length
shall spur him up in its defence. In a moment he transmigrates,
dons the required character, and with moonstruck philosophy
justifies the act in question. I can fancy nothing to compare with
the VIM of these impersonations, the strange scale of language,
flying from Shakespeare to Kant, and from Kant to Major Dyngwell -
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