| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: '"Ah, you English!" he cried. "You are more than pigs. You
are English. Now you are well punished for your dirty fishes. Put
the draft in the fire, and never do so any more. You are a fool, Hal,
and you are a fool, Benedetto, but I need your works to please this
beautiful English King."
'"And I meant to kill Hal," says Benedetto. "Master, I meant
to kill him because the English King had made him a knight."
'"Ah!" says the Master, shaking his finger. "Benedetto, if you
had killed my Hal, I should have killed you - in the cloister. But
you are a craftsman too, so I should have killed you like a
craftsman, very, very slowly - in an hour, if I could spare the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: never have been left so full of uncertainties, nor human nature
framed so as to find a peculiar joy and exhilaration in meeting them
bravely and cheerfully, if it had not been divinely intended that
most of our amusement and much of our education should come from
this source.
"Chance" is a disreputable word, I know. It is supposed by many
pious persons to be improper and almost blasphemous to use it. But
I am not one of those who share this verbal prejudice. I am
inclined rather to believe that it is a good word to which a bad
reputation has been given. I feel grateful to that admirable
"psychologist who writes like a novelist," Mr. William James, for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: the tops of many magnificent trees, some nearly as
tall as the spires of the buildings, and the
Shaggy Man told them that these trees were in the
royal gardens of Princess Ozma.
They stood a long time on the hilltop, feasting
their eyes on the splendor of the Emerald City.
"Whee!" exclaimed Scraps, clasping her padded
hands in ecstacy, "that'll do for me to live in,
all right. No more of the Munchkin Country for
these patches--and no more of the Crooked
Magician!"
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