| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: was aiming at medical practice, and who lodged at the house of a
bookseller. Johnson spoke with interest of Father Lobo, whose book
he had read at Pembroke College. Mr. Warren, the bookseller,
thought it would be worth while to print a translation. Hector
joined in urging Johnson to undertake it, for a payment of five
guineas. Although nearly brought to a stop midway by hypochondriac
despondency, a little suggestion that the printers also were
stopped, and if they had not their work had not their pay, caused
Johnson to go on to the end. Legrand's book was reduced to a fifth
of its size by the omission of all that overlaid Father Lobo's
personal account of his adventures; and Johnson began work as a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: and she was desperate. She threw him off the track somehow, lied
and talked him down, and then went to bed in collapse. She sent
for Henry later and told him.
"The queer thing was that as soon as she saw him she wanted him.
He was her son. She went to Henry one night, and said she had
perjured her soul, and that she wanted him back. She wasn't in
love with Thorwald. I think she'd always cared for Clark. She
went away finally, however, after promising Henry she would keep
Clark's secret. But I have a suspicion that later on she
acknowledged the truth to the boy.
"What he wanted, of course, was a share of the Clark estate. Of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: of a waiting conscience, he bought a whole night's sleep--all for
twenty-five cents! It should make Wall Street ashamed of itself.
On his way home his heart was joyful, and it sang--profit on top
of profit! The impulse which moved the man to succor the old
woman was--FIRST--to CONTENT HIS OWN SPIRIT; secondly to relieve
HER sufferings. Is it your opinion that men's acts proceed from
one central and unchanging and inalterable impulse, or from a
variety of impulses?
Y.M. From a variety, of course--some high and fine and
noble, others not. What is your opinion?
O.M. Then there is but ONE law, one source.
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