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“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”1 (Jane Austen)
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.”2 (Emily Dickinson)
“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”3 (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
The verb tenses in the three quotes above are, respectively,