| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Unto divinities such awesome deeds,
And coupled thereto rigours of fierce wrath!
What groans did men on that sad day beget
Even for themselves, and O what wounds for us,
What tears for our children's children! Nor, O man,
Is thy true piety in this: with head
Under the veil, still to be seen to turn
Fronting a stone, and ever to approach
Unto all altars; nor so prone on earth
Forward to fall, to spread upturned palms
Before the shrines of gods, nor yet to dew
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: he got back home again he had the new words that stood on the
walls of the room painted out, and had the old ones painted in in
bigger letters than ever:
"All Things are as Fate wills."
All the good people who were gathered around the table of the
Sign of Mother Goose sat thinking for a while over the story. As
for Boots, he buried his face in the quart pot and took a long,
long pull at the ale.
"Methinks," said the Soldier who cheated the Devil, presently
breaking silence--"methinks there be very few of the women folk
who do their share of this story-telling. So far we have had but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: distance away devouring shellfish, of which, by the way,
I was becoming exceedingly tired.
Presently, the hyaenodon arose and came toward
me. I did not move. He stopped in front of me and
deliberately raised his bandaged leg and pawed my
knee. His act was as intelligible as words--he wished
the bandage removed.
I took the great paw in one hand and with the other
hand untied and unwound the bandage, removed the
splints and felt of the injured member. As far as I could
judge the bone was completely knit. The joint was stiff;
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