The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: You must seize these things. Blake and Beverly might have got tired
waiting."
"'Blake and Beverly!' I exclaimed 'So they made the purchase. It Mr.
Beverly back?'"
"'Just back. To tell the truth I don't believe they're finding so much
copper as they hoped.'"
"This turned out to be true. And I am not sure that the business man had
not known it all the while. 'We looked over the property pretty
thoroughly at the time of the Tamarack excitement,' he said. And in a few
days more, in fact, it was generally known that this land had returned to
its old state of not quite paying the taxes."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: has the forbidden fruit in his waist-coat pocket, and can
make himself a god as often and as long as he likes. He has
raised himself upon a glorious pedestal above his fellows; he
has touched the summit of ambition; and he envies neither
King nor Kaiser, Prophet nor Priest, content in an elevation
as high as theirs, and much more easily attained. Yes,
certes, much more easily attained. He has not risen by
climbing himself, but by pushing others down. He has grown
great in his own estimation, not by blowing himself out, and
risking the fate of AEsop's frog, but simply by the habitual
use of a diminishing glass on everybody else. And I think
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: Welcome her, thunders of fort and of fleet!
Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street!
Welcome her, all things youthful and sweet,
Scatter the blossom under her feet!
Break, happy land, into earlier flowers!
Make music, O bird, in the new-budded bowers!
Blazon your mottos of blessing and prayer!
Welcome her, welcome her, all that is ours!
Warble, O bugle, and trumpet, blare!
Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers!
Flames, on the windy headland flare!
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