| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: shouted for the Earl, but the great Lord rode staring ever
straight before him, as unmoved as a stone. Then out of the town
they clattered, and away in a sweeping cloud of dust across the
country-side.
It was not until they had reached the windy top of Willoughby
Croft, ten miles away, that they met the King and his company. As
the two parties approached to within forty or fifty yards of one
another they stopped.
As they came to a halt, Myles observed that a gentleman dressed
in a plain blue-gray riding- habit, and sitting upon a beautiful
white gelding, stood a little in advance of the rest of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Prayers & Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson: fortune, and, down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to
another. As the clay to the potter, as the windmill to the wind,
as children of their sire, we beseech of Thee this help and mercy
for Christ's sake.
FOR GRACE
GRANT that we here before Thee may be set free from the fear of
vicissitude and the fear of death, may finish what remains before
us of our course without dishonour to ourselves or hurt to others,
and, when the day comes, may die in peace. Deliver us from fear
and favour: from mean hopes and cheap pleasures. Have mercy on
each in his deficiency; let him be not cast down; support the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He little changeable is; I fear me, if this you deny him,
All the fairest years of his life will be changed into sorrow."
Then in prudent fashion the druggist, who long had been wanting
His opinion to give, rejoin'd in the following manner
"This is Just a case when the middle course is the wisest!
'Hasten slowly,' you know, was the motto of Caesar Augustus.
I am always ready to be of use to my neighbours,
And to turn to their profit what little wits I can boast of.
Youth especially needs the guidance of those who are older.
Let me then depart; I fain would prove her, that maiden,
And will examine the people 'mongst whom she lives, and who know her.
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