| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: hand, and got upon the
flat top of the wall at the bottom
of the wood. From here they
looked down into Mr. McGregor's
garden. Peter's coat
and shoes were plainly to be
seen upon the scarecrow,
topped with an old tam-o-
shanter of Mr. McGregor's.
LITTLE Benjamin said,
"It spoils people's clothes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: man's. He loved the harsh voice of duty like a call to battle. He
loved courage, enterprise, brave natures, a brave word, an ugly
virtue; everything that lifts us above the table where we eat or
the bed we sleep upon. This with no touch of the motive-monger or
the ascetic. He loved his virtues to be practical, his heroes to
be great eaters of beef; he loved the jovial Heracles, loved the
astute Odysseus; not the Robespierres and Wesleys. A fine buoyant
sense of life and of man's unequal character ran through all his
thoughts. He could not tolerate the spirit of the pick-thank;
being what we are, he wished us to see others with a generous eye
of admiration, not with the smallness of the seeker after faults.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: The same papers state that, as a bishop's certificate is a legal
proof of marriage, Dr. Cosin's compliance would have been
invaluable to the duke and his friends. His lordship, however,
rejected the proposition, and laid the matter before the king,
who expelled Ross from court.
Horror of popery and fear of a papist sovereign increased with
time, care having been taken by my Lord Shaftesbury and his party
that the public mind, once inflamed, should be kept ignited. For
this purpose he spread reports abroad that the Irish were about
to rise in rebellion, backed by the French; and that the papists
in London had entered into a vile conspiracy to put their fellow
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