| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
ADHERENT, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects
to get.
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to
receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of
straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
ADMIRAL, n. That part of a war-ship which does the talking while the
figure-head does the thinking.
ADMIRATION, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to
ourselves.
ADMONITION, n. Gentle reproof, as with a meat-axe. Friendly warning.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: promote their keeping, as she had heard Mrs. Jordan say, in touch.
So, when he actually sometimes smiled as if he really felt the
awkwardness of giving her again one of the same old addresses, all
her being went out in the desire--which her face must have
expressed--that he should recognise her forbearance to criticise as
one of the finest tenderest sacrifices a woman had ever made for
love.
CHAPTER XII
She was occasionally worried, however this might be, by the
impression that these sacrifices, great as they were, were nothing
to those that his own passion had imposed; if indeed it was not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: sepulture; and there are many instances of the sacrifice of life
in the attempt to bury those who had fallen by the "sword of the
wilderness." Reuben, therefore, felt the full importance of the
promise which he most solemnly made to return and perform Roger
Malvin's obsequies. It was remarkable that the latter, speaking
his whole heart in his parting words, no longer endeavored to
persuade the youth that even the speediest succor might avail to
the preservation of his life. Reuben was internally convinced
that he should see Malvin's living face no more. His generous
nature would fain have delayed him, at whatever risk, till the
dying scene were past; but the desire of existence and the hope
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