| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: CADE.
I am able to endure much.
DICK.
[Aside.] No question of that; for I have seen him whipped
three market-days together.
CADE.
I fear neither sword nor fire.
SMITH.
[Aside.] He need not fear the sword, for his coat is of
proof.
DICK.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: looking upon. There were no fine houses at that time, and no
great counting houses built of brick, such as you may find
nowadays, but a crowd of board and wattled huts huddled along the
streets, and all so gay with flags and bits of color that Vanity
Fair itself could not have been gayer. To this place came all the
pirates and buccaneers that infested those parts, and men shouted
and swore and gambled, and poured out money like water, and then
maybe wound up their merrymaking by dying of fever. For the sky
in these torrid latitudes is all full of clouds overhead, and as
hot as any blanket, and when the sun shone forth it streamed down
upon the smoking sands so that the houses were ovens and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: Taiarapu, the windward peninsula of Tahiti, where he lived.
I have heard from end to end two versions; and as many as
five different persons have helped me with details. There
seems no reason why the tale should not be true.
Note 1, "THE AITO," QUASI champion, or brave. One skilled in
the use of some weapon, who wandered the country challenging
distinguished rivals and taking part in local quarrels. It
was in the natural course of his advancement to be at last
employed by a chief, or king; and it would then be a part of
his duties to purvey the victim for sacrifice. One of the
doomed families was indicated; the aito took his weapon and
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