| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the alert, his nerves keyed to the highest pitch of excitement.
This was life! For the instant he forgot his resolutions of a few
minutes past to hasten to the coast at some other point than that
at which he had landed and make his way immediately back to London.
He thought now only of the savage joy of living, and of pitting
one's wits and prowess against the wiles and might of the savage
jungle brood which haunted the broad plains and the gloomy forest
aisles of the great, untamed continent. He knew no fear.
His father had had none to transmit to him; but honor and
conscience he did have and these were to trouble him many
times as they battled with his inherent love of freedom for
The Son of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: These, and other speeches said occasionally in the form of praise
extinguished the desires that some men might have had to marry the
beautiful Spanish girl. Queen of every ball, accustomed to flattery,
"blasee" with the smiles and the admiration which followed her every
step, Natalie, nevertheless, knew nothing of life. She lived as the
bird which flies, as the flower that blooms, finding every one about
her eager to do her will. She was ignorant of the price of things; she
knew neither the value of money, nor whence it came, how it should be
managed, and how spent. Possibly she thought that every household had
cooks and coachmen, lady's-maids and footmen, as the fields have hay
and the trees their fruits. To her, beggars and paupers, fallen trees
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: do no servile work therein:
NUM 29:36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs
of the first year without blemish:
NUM 29:37 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their
number, after the manner:
NUM 29:38 And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt
offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
NUM 29:39 These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts,
beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings,
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