| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Pray excuse me," answered the doctor quietly. "I am old and
rheumatic, and my dancing days were over long ago. But either of
these gay young gentlemen will be glad of so pretty a partner."
"Dance with me, Clara!" cried Colonel Killigrew
"No, no, I will be her partner!" shouted Mr. Gascoigne.
"She promised me her hand, fifty years ago!" exclaimed Mr.
Medbourne.
They all gathered round her. One caught both her hands in his
passionate grasp another threw his arm about her waist--the third
buried his hand among the glossy curls that clustered beneath the
widow's cap. Blushing, panting, struggling, chiding, laughing,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: "There was a man who married
Because he couldn't see;
And all his days he carried
The mark of his degree.
But you -- you came clear-sighted,
And found truth in my eyes;
And all my wrongs you've righted
With lies, and lies, and lies.
"You've killed the last assurance
That once would have me strive
To rouse an old endurance
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: the marguerite, which, as an emigrant called white-weed, has usurped
our fields. The same has been no less true of peoples. Now these
Far Eastern peoples, in comparison with our own forefathers, have
travelled very little. A race in its travels gains two things:
first it acquires directly a great deal from both places and peoples
that it meets, and secondly it is constantly put to its own
resources in its struggle for existence, and becomes more personal
as the outcome of such strife. The changed conditions, the hostile
forces it finds, necessitate mental ingenuity to adapt them and
influence it unconsciously. To see how potent these influences
prove we have but to look at the two great branches of the Aryan
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