| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: It pounded like a powder mill;
And marking how the world went round
A theory of theft it found.
Here is the key to right and wrong:
STEAL LITTLE, BUT STEAL ALL DAY LONG;
And this invaluable plan
Marks what is called the Honest Man.
When first I served with Doctor Pill,
My hand was ever in the till.
Now that I am myself a master,
My gains come softer still and faster.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: "Ah," murmured Mrs. Vivian, rising lightly, as if to make her words
appear more casual, "I don't know the full figure of his income.
"
She was turning away, and Bernard, as he raised his hat
and separated from her, felt that it was rather cruel that
he should let her go without enlightening her ignorance.
But he said to himself that she knew quite enough. Indeed, he took
a walk along the Lichtenthal Alley and carried out this line
of reflection. Whether or no Miss Vivian were in love with
Gordon Wright, her mother was enamored of Gordon's fortune,
and it had suddenly occurred to her that instead of treating
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis: men who do the lowest part of the world's work should be
machines,--nothing more,--hands. It would be kindness. God
help them! What are taste, reason, to creatures who must live
such lives as that?" He pointed to Deborah, sleeping on the
ash-heap. "So many nerves to sting them to pain. What if God
had put your brain, with all its agony of touch, into your
fingers, and bid you work and strike with that?"
"You think you could govern the world better?" laughed the
Doctor.
"I do not think at all."
"That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you
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