| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: when the Emperor implored that they make no attempt to fight all
the foreign nations, for said he, "the foreigners are stronger
than we, both in money and in arms, while their soldiers are much
better drilled and equipped in every way. If we undertake this
and fail as we are sure to do, it will be impossible to make
peace with the foreigners and our country will be divided up
amongst them." His pleadings, however, were disregarded, and
after the meeting was over, he had to return to his little
island, where for eight weeks he was compelled to sit listening
to the rattling guns, booming cannons and bursting firecrackers,
for the Boxers seemed to hope to exterminate the foreigners by
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Soundless above them the banners of moss just stirred to the
music.
Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance,
Over the watery floor, and beneath the reverberant branches;
But not a voice replied; no answer came from the darkness;
And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the
silence.
Then Evangeline slept; but the boatmen rowed through the
midnight,
Silent at times, then singing familiar Canadian boat-songs,
Such as they sang of old on their own Acadian rivers,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: his thirst and save his life.
Little by little does the trick.
The Man and the Satyr
A Man had lost his way in a wood one bitter winter's night.
As he was roaming about, a Satyr came up to him, and finding that
he had lost his way, promised to give him a lodging for the night,
and guide him out of the forest in the morning. As he went along
to the Satyr's cell, the Man raised both his hands to his mouth
and kept on blowing at them. "What do you do that for?" said the
Satyr.
"My hands are numb with the cold," said the Man, "and my
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