| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: whatever she may have come for. You could not possibly see her,
could you?"
"I don't really think I could. It would be so very painful to talk
to her now--for her as much as for me. However, she's gone.
Did she say she would come again?"
"No. But she went away very reluctantly."
Sue, whom the least thing upset, could not eat any supper,
and when Jude had finished his he prepared to go to bed.
He had no sooner raked out the fire, fastened the doors,
and got to the top of the stairs than there came a knock.
Sue instantly emerged from her room, which she had but
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: We fools self-doomed to motley are
The weariest wights on earth!
But yet, for us whose brains and hearts
Strove aye in paths perverse,
Doomed still to know the better things
And still to do the worse,--
What else is there remains for us
But make a jest of care
And set the rafters ringing, in
Our Tavern of Despair?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: life with honour. He needs only to expend his care aright, sealing his
ears to weak and soft seductions, and his house shall surely be
increased.[10]
[9] See "Mem." I. ii. 4; "Cyrop." I. ii. 16. Al. "bring out the effect
of it by toil."
[10] Lit. "it is likely his estate will increase more largely."
I answered: So far I follow you, Ischomachus. You tell me that by
labouring to his full strength,[11] by expending care, by practice and
training, a man may hope more fully to secure life's blessings. So I
take your meaning. But now I fain would learn of you some details.
What particular toil do you impose on yourself in order to secure good
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