| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Their distract parcels in combined sums.
'Lo! this device was sent me from a nun,
Or sister sanctified of holiest note;
Which late her noble suit in court did shun,
Whose rarest havings made the blossoms dote;
For she was sought by spirits of richest coat,
But kept cold distance, and did thence remove
To spend her living in eternal love.
'But O, my sweet, what labour is't to leave
The thing we have not, mastering what not strives?
Paling the place which did no form receive,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: the place popular. Isolated among strange influences, Lavinia
was fond of wild and grandiose day-dreams and singular occupations;
nor was her leisure much taken up by household cares in a home
from which all standards of order and cleanliness had long since
disappeared.
There was a hideous screaming which echoed above
even the hill noises and the dogs' barking on the night Wilbur
was born, but no known doctor or midwife presided at his coming.
Neighbours knew nothing of him till a week afterward, when Old
Wateley drove his sleigh through the snow into Dunwich Village
and discoursed incoherently to the group of loungers at Osborne's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: seems justified, since the mountain is now quiet. We will wait awhile
and perhaps nature herself will disclose her mystery."
"Mr. Ward, believe me that I regret deeply that I have been unable to
solve the problem you entrusted to me," I said.
"Nonsense! Do not upset yourself, Strock. Take your defeat
philosophically. We cannot always be successful, even in the police.
How many criminals escape us! I believe we should never capture one
of them, if they were a little more intelligent and less imprudent,
and if they did not compromise themselves so stupidly. Nothing, it
seems to me, would be easier than to plan a crime, a theft or an
assassination, and to execute it without arousing any suspicions, or
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