| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: 'Appeal to him, tell him he did, get on his soft side,' cried
Gideon. 'He's a real brick if you get on his soft side.'
'Dear Mr Bloomfield,' said Julia, 'I know Gideon will be such a
very good boy, and he has promised me to do such a lot of law,
and I will see that he does too. And you know it is so very
steadying to young men, everybody admits that; though, of course,
I know I have no money, Mr Bloomfield,' she added.
'My dear young lady, as this rapscallion told you today on the
boat, Uncle Ned has plenty,' said the Squirradical, 'and I can
never forget that you have been shamefully defrauded. So as
there's nobody looking, you had better give your Uncle Ned a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: 'And, lo! behold these talents of their hair,
With twisted metal amorously empleach'd,
I have receiv'd from many a several fair,
(Their kind acceptance weepingly beseech'd,)
With the annexions of fair gems enrich'd,
And deep-brain'd sonnets that did amplify
Each stone's dear nature, worth, and quality.
'The diamond, why 'twas beautiful and hard,
Whereto his invis'd properties did tend;
The deep-green emerald, in whose fresh regard
Weak sights their sickly radiance do amend;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: inhabitant. From many a hill I can see civilization and the
abodes of man afar. The farmers and their works are scarcely more
obvious than woodchucks and their burrows. Man and his affairs,
church and state and school, trade and commerce, and manufactures
and agriculture even politics, the most alarming of them all--I
am pleased to see how little space they occupy in the landscape.
Politics is but a narrow field, and that still narrower highway
yonder leads to it. I sometimes direct the traveler thither. If
you would go to the political world, follow the great
road--follow that market-man, keep his dust in your eyes, and it
will lead you straight to it; for it, too, has its place merely,
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