| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: which the saints have trodden of old, the spirit of Elijah the
Tishbite, the founder of his blessed order, hath been with him as
it was with the prophet Elisha, the son of Shaphat, when he
spread his mantle over him."
King Richard listened to the Prelate's reasoning with a downcast
brow and a troubled look.
"I cannot tell," he said, "How, it is with me, but methinks these
cold counsels of the Princes of Christendom have infected me too
with a lethargy of spirit. The time hath been that, had a layman
proposed such alliance to me, I had struck him to earth--if a
churchman, I had spit at him as a renegade and priest of Baal;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: a pleasant opportunity to stretch his legs, cramped by sitting in
the canoe, and to renew his acquaintance with the pretty things
that are in the woods.
We sauntered along the trail, Damon and I, as if school were out
and would never keep again. How fresh and tonic the forest seemed
as we plunged into its bath of shade. There were our old friends
the cedars, with their roots twisted across the path; and the white
birches, so trim in youth and so shaggy in age; and the sociable
spruces and balsams, crowding close together, and interlacing their
arms overhead. There were the little springs, trickling through
the moss; and the slippery logs laid across the marshy places; and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: make the Indians carry it, saving the women, whom God forbid we
should burden. But we must pass through the very heart of the
Spanish settlements, and by the town of Saint Martha itself. So
the clothes and weapons of these Spaniards we must have, let it
cost us what labor it may. How many lie in the road?"
"Thirteen here, and about ten up above," said Cary.
"Then there are near twenty missing. Who will volunteer to go down
over cliff, and bring up the spoil of them?"
"I, and I, and I;" and a dozen stepped out, as they did always when
Amyas wanted anything done; for the simple reason, that they knew
that he meant to help at the doing of it himself.
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