| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Much that had soon with sunshine cried for haste,
He may forestall; the ploughman batters keen
His blunted share's hard tooth, scoops from a tree
His troughs, or on the cattle stamps a brand,
Or numbers on the corn-heaps; some make sharp
The stakes and two-pronged forks, and willow-bands
Amerian for the bending vine prepare.
Now let the pliant basket plaited be
Of bramble-twigs; now set your corn to parch
Before the fire; now bruise it with the stone.
Nay even on holy days some tasks to ply
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: Rosen instantly composed her sobs. She thanked him with a
fluttering voice, and resumed her place upon the bench, at the far
end from Otto. 'Now you see,' she said, 'why I bade you keep the
thief at distance, and why I came alone. How I trembled for my
treasure!'
'Madam,' said Otto, with a tearful whimper in his voice, 'spare me!
You are too good, too noble!'
'I wonder to hear you,' she returned. 'You have avoided a great
folly. You will be able to meet your good old peasant. You have
found an excellent investment for a friend's money. You have
preferred essential kindness to an empty scruple; and now you are
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: But I wander from M'Guire. From this dread glance into the
past and future, his thoughts returned at a bound upon the
present. How had he wandered there? and how long - oh,
heavens! how long had he been about it? He pulled out his
watch; and found that but three minutes had elapsed. It
seemed too bright a thing to be believed. He glanced at the
church clock; and sure enough, it marked an hour four minutes
faster than the watch.
Of all that he endured, M'Guire declares that pang was the
most desolate. Till then, he had had one friend, one
counsellor, in whom he plenarily trusted; by whose
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