| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: of those who do well; that God may cover for them their offences which
they have done, and may reward them with their hire for the best of
that which they have done.
Is not God sufficient for His servants? and yet they would
frighten thee with those beside Him. But he whom God leads astray
there is no guide for him; and he whom God guides there is none to
lead him astray: is not God mighty, the Lord of vengeance?
And if thou shouldst ask them who created the heavens and the earth,
they will surely say, 'God!' Say, 'Have ye considered what ye call
on beside God? If God wished me harm, could they remove His harm? or
did He wish me mercy, could they withhold His mercy?' Say, 'God is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: "Interesting combination,' said I, with a yawn. "Did I tell you I
bagged a duck and a ground-squirrel at one shot last week over in the
Ramapos?" I knew well how to draw Jeff's stories.
"Let me tell you first about these barnacles that clog the wheels of
society by poisoning the springs of rectitude with their upas-like
eye," said Jeff, with the pure gleam of the muck-raker in his own.
"As I said, three months ago I got into bad company. There are two
times in a man's life when he does this--when he's dead broke, and
when he's rich.
"Now and then the most legitimate business runs out of luck. It was
out in Arkansas I made the wrong turn at a cross-road, and drives into
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: By five o'clock the carts had filed away; the men rode or walked before and
behind them; and the space where the camp had been was an empty circle;
save for a few broken bottles and empty tins, and the stones about which
the fires had been made, round which warm ashes yet lay.
Only under the little stunted tree, the Colonial and the Englishman were
piling up stones. Their horses stood saddled close by.
Presently the large trooper came riding back. He had been sent by the
Captain to ask what they were fooling behind for, and to tell them to come
on.
The men mounted their horses to follow him; but the Englishman turned in
his saddle and looked back. The morning sun was lighting up the straggling
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