| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: on a miserable mistake, and the hound has brought him to the top of
Lewthwaite Crag, and - "
Whereat the old dame broke out crying, without letting him finish
his story.
"So he told me the truth after all, poor little dear! Ah, first
thoughts are best, and a body's heart'll guide them right, if they
will but hearken to it." And then she told Sir John all.
"Bring the dog here, and lay him on," said Sir John, without
another word, and he set his teeth very hard.
And the dog opened at once; and went away at the back of the
cottage, over the road, and over the meadow, and through a bit of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: I told him I would do as he wished, though indeed I had scarce
breath to speak with; and upon that he gave me the key of the
spirit locker, and I began to go slowly back to the round-house.
What was I to do? They were dogs and thieves; they had stolen me
from my own country; they had killed poor Ransome; and was I to
hold the candle to another murder? But then, upon the other hand,
there was the fear of death very plain before me; for what could
a boy and a man, if they were as brave as lions, against a whole
ship's company?
I was still arguing it back and forth, and getting no great
clearness, when I came into the round-house and saw the Jacobite
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: of air, exercise, and cheerfulness!
Indeed, the rules of punishment carried out in schools deserve the
attention of the Office of Public Instruction when any thinkers are to
be found there who do not think exclusively of themselves.
We incurred the infliction of an imposition in a thousand ways. Our
memory was so good that we never learned a lesson. It was enough for
either of us to hear our class-fellows repeat the task in French,
Latin, or grammar, and we could say it when our turn came; but if the
master, unfortunately, took it into his head to reverse the usual
order and call upon us first, we very often did not even know what the
lesson was; then the imposition fell in spite of our most ingenious
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