| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: The courage with which these two young people fought with misery
received for a while its due reward; but an event which usually crowns
the happiness of a household to them proved fatal. Ginevra had a son,
who was, to use the popular expression, "as beautiful as the day." The
sense of motherhood doubled the strength of the young wife. Luigi
borrowed money to meet the expenses of Ginevra's confinement. At first
she did not feel the fresh burden of their situation; and the pair
gave themselves wholly up to the joy of possessing a child. It was
their last happiness.
Like two swimmers uniting their efforts to breast a current, these two
Corsican souls struggled courageously; but sometimes they gave way to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezekiel 9: 9 Then said He unto me: 'The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wresting of judgment; for they say: The LORD hath forsaken the land, and the LORD seeth not.
Ezekiel 9: 10 And as for Me also, Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.'
Ezekiel 9: 11 And, behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn on his side, reported, saying: 'I have done according to all that Thou hast commanded me.'
Ezekiel 10: 1 Then I looked, and, behold, upon the firmament that was over the head of the cherubim, there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
Ezekiel 10: 2 And He spoke unto the man clothed in linen, and said: 'Go in between the wheelwork, even under the cherub, and fill both thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and dash them against the city.' And he went in in my sight.
Ezekiel 10: 3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
Ezekiel 10: 4 And the glory of the LORD mounted up from the cherub to the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: of David in the Bible, the ODYSSEY, Sophocles, AEschylus,
Shakespeare, Scott; old Dumas in his chivalrous note; Dickens
rather than Thackeray, and the TALE OF TWO CITIES out of Dickens:
such were some of his preferences. To Ariosto and Boccaccio he was
always faithful; BURNT NJAL was a late favourite; and he found at
least a passing entertainment in the ARCADIA and the GRAND CYRUS.
George Eliot he outgrew, finding her latterly only sawdust in the
mouth; but her influence, while it lasted, was great, and must have
gone some way to form his mind. He was easily set on edge,
however, by didactic writing; and held that books should teach no
other lesson but what 'real life would teach, were it as vividly
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