| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: himself quite equal to the undertaking. To skate sixty or seventy miles
a day would be nothing, he said, to a practical skater like himself.
The whole journey there and back might be performed in eight days.
Provided with a compass, a sufficient supply of cold meat, and a spirit lamp,
by which he might boil his coffee, he was perfectly sure he should,
without the least difficulty, accomplish an enterprise that chimed
in so exactly with his adventurous spirit.
Equally urgent were both the count and the lieutenant to be allowed
to accompany him; nay, they even offered to go instead; but Servadac,
expressing himself as most grateful for their consideration,
declined their offer, and avowed his resolution of taking no other
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: And all their force against this mass oppose,
Sometimes the wheels, sometimes the battlement
With timber, logs and stones, they broke and rent,
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So thick flew stones and darts, that no man sees
The azure heavens, the sun his brightness lost,
The clouds of weapons, like to swarms of bees,
Move the air, and there each other crossed:
And look how falling leaves drop down from trees,
When the moist sap is nipped with timely frost,
Or apples in strong winds from branches fall;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Proverbs 31: 2 What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? and what, O son of my vows?
Proverbs 31: 3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Proverbs 31: 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine: nor for princes to say: 'Where is strong drink?'
Proverbs 31: 5 Lest they drink, and forget that which is decreed, and pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted.
Proverbs 31: 6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter in soul;
Proverbs 31: 7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Proverbs 31: 8 Open thy mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Proverbs 31: 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31: 10 A woman of valour who can find? for her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 31: 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, and he hath no lack of gain.
Proverbs 31: 12 She doeth him good and not evil all the days of her life.
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