| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: I suppose it must be so.
Again. There is a little pink butterwort here in the bogs, which
grows, too, in dear old Devonshire and Cornwall; and also in the
south-west of Scotland. Now, when I found that too, in the bogs
near Biarritz, close to the Pyrenees, and knew that it stretched
away along the Spanish coast, and into Portugal, what could my
common sense lead me to say but that Scotland, and Ireland, and
Cornwall, and Spain were all joined once? Those are only a few
examples. I could give you a dozen more. For instance, on an
island away there to the west, and only in one spot, there grows a
little sort of lily, which is found I believe in Brittany, and on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: hearts. No matter how severe the censure they put upon you when you are
absent, the moment they are with you they soften and are all kindness and
warmth. As soon as their eyes rest on you, affection and love come bubbling
up. You are so made. Every animal likes you. All people like you. They can't
help it. You can't help it. You are universally lovable, and the best of it is
that you don't know it. You don't know it now. Even as I tell it to you, you
don't realize it, you won't realize it--and that very incapacity to realize it
is one of the reasons why you are so loved. You are incredulous now, and you
shake your head; but I know, who am your slave, as all people know, for they
likewise are your slaves.
"Why, in a minute we shall go in and join them. Mark the affection, almost
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: A glad light of hope illuminated her face.
"John!" she cried. "Thank God that you have come in time."
Behind Tarzan came the great apes, wondering, but
obedient to his summons. The Arabs saw that they would
not have time to mount and make their escape before the
beasts and the man were upon them. Achmet Zek
recognized the latter as the redoubtable enemy of such
as he, and he saw, too, in the circumstance an
opportunity to rid himself forever of the menace of the
ape-man's presence.
Calling to his men to follow his example he raised his
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