| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: admitted anxiously. "I wisht y'u wasn't hampered with that load,
but I reckon I'll have to try to stand them off alone."
"We bucked into a slice of luck when I opened on his bronc
mavericking around alone. Hadn't been for that we could never
have made it," said Missou, who never crossed a bridge until he
came to it.
"We haven't made it yet, old hoss, not by a long mile, and two
more on top o' that. They're beginning to pump lead already. Huh!
Got to drap your pills closer'n that 'fore y'u worry me."
"I believe he's daid, anyway," said Missou presently, peering
down into the white face of the unconscious man.
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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: Standish.
For I must tell you the truth: much more to me is your friendship
Than all the love he could give, were he twice the hero you think
him."
Then she extended her hand, and Alden, who eagerly grasped it,
Felt all the wounds in his heart, that were aching and bleeding
so sorely,
Healed by the touch of that hand, and he said, with a voice full
of feeling:
"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you
friendship
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: the morning in a spirit of enjoyable indolence. I affirm it with
assurance, and I don't even know now what were the books then
lying about the room. What ever they were, they were not the
works of great masters, where the secret of clear thought and
exact expression can be found. Since the age of five I have been
a great reader, as is not perhaps wonderful in a child who was
never aware of learning to read. At ten years of age I had read
much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish
and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew "Gil Blas" and
"Don Quixote" in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood
Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read
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