| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: I stand upon this moor of mine,
A hoar, unconquerable pine.'
The second sniffed and answered: 'Pooh!
I am as good a pine as you.'
'Discourteous tree,' the first replied,
'The tempest in my boughs had cried,
The hunter slumbered in my shade,
A hundred years ere you were made.'
The second smiled as he returned:
'I shall be here when you are burned.'
So far dissension ruled the pair,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: hominum] tertia pars Galliae est [aestimanda], cum intellegeret in iis
locis sibi bellum gerendum ubi paucis ante annis L. Valerius Praeconinus
legatus exercitu pulso interfectus esset atque unde L. Manlius proconsul
impedimentis amissis profugisset, non mediocrem sibi diligentiam
adhibendam intellegebat. Itaque re frumentaria provisa, auxiliis
equitatuque comparato, multis praeterea viris fortibus Tolosa et Carcasone
et Narbone, quae sunt civitates Galliae provinciae finitimae, ex his
regionibus nominatim evocatis, in Sotiatium fines exercitum introduxit.
Cuius adventu cognito Sotiates magnis copiis coactis, equitatuque, quo
plurimum valebant, in itinere agmen nostrum adorti primum equestre
proelium commiserunt, deinde equitatu suo pulso atque insequentibus
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: knowing everything. She could argue fluently on Italian or Flemish
painting, on the Middle Ages or the Renaissance; pronounced at
haphazard on books new or old, and could expose the defects of a work
with a cruelly graceful wit. The simplest thing she said was accepted
by an admiring crowd as a fetfah of the Sultan by the Turks. She thus
dazzled shallow persons; as to deeper minds, her natural tact enabled
her to discern them, and for them she put forth so much fascination
that, under cover of her charms, she escaped their scrutiny. This
enchanting veneer covered a careless heart; the opinion--common to
many young girls--that no one else dwelt in a sphere so lofty as to be
able to understand the merits of her soul; and a pride based no less
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