| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: at last nothing was left out of the water but the tops of the
mountains in Ireland, and Scotland, and Wales. It sank so deep
that it left beds of shells belonging to the Arctic regions nearly
two thousand feet high upon the mountain side. And so
"It grew wondrous cold,
And ice mast-high came floating by,
As green as emerald."
But there were no masts then to measure the icebergs by, nor any
ship nor human being there. All we know is that the icebergs
brought with them vast quantities of mud, which sank to the
bottom, and covered up that pleasant old forest-land in what is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: turned on Lawrence Pentfield.
"Look here, Pentfield," he said, in a quiet, nervous manner; "I
can't allow that, you know."
"Allow what?" Pentfield demanded brutally.
"You implied that I lied."
"Nothing of the sort," came the reply. "I merely implied that you
were trying to be clumsily witty."
"Make your bets, gentlemen," the dealer protested.
"But I tell you it's true," Nick Inwood insisted.
"And I have told you I've five hundred that says it's not in that
paper," Pentfield answered, at the same time throwing a heavy sack
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: is now reduced to servitude. Among his many misfortunes let my
intercession redeem him from the one of being sold as a common slave."
Such a refusal and such a request on the part of Marcius were followed
with yet louder acclamations; and he had many more admirers of this
generous superiority to avarice, than of the bravery he had shown in
battle. The very persons who conceived some envy and despite to see him
so specially honored, could not but acknowledge, that one who so nobly
could refuse reward, was beyond others worthy to receive it; and were
more charmed with that virtue which made him despise advantage, than
with any of those former actions that had gained him his title to it.
It is the hither accomplishment to use money well than to use arms; but
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