| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: curiosity she could not help but feel, she steeled herself in the
pride of those who are without pride, and trembled in the inner
room like a maid on the first caress of a lover. If Mrs.
Eppingwell suffered going up the hill, she too suffered, lying
face downward on the bed, dry-eyed, dry-mouthed, dumb.
Mrs. Eppingwell's knowledge of human nature was great. She aimed
at universality. She had found it easy to step from the civilized
and contemplate things from the barbaric aspect. She could
comprehend certain primal and analogous characteristics in a
hungry wolf-dog or a starving man, and predicate lines of action
to be pursued by either under like conditions. To her, a woman
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: passing along the coast till I arrived at the port from which I had
departed twenty years before. Here I joined myself to a caravan,
and re-entered my native country.
"I now expected the caresses of my kinsmen and the congratulations
of my friends, and was not without hope that my father, whatever
value he had set upon riches, would own with gladness and pride a
son who was able to add to the felicity and honour of the nation.
But I was soon convinced that my thoughts were vain. My father had
been dead fourteen years, having divided his wealth among my
brothers, who were removed to some other provinces. Of my
companions, the greater part was in the grave; of the rest, some
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: figure, this of uncle John, with his dung cart and his inventions;
and the romantic fancy of his Mexican house; and his craze about
the Lost Tribes which seemed to the worthy man the key of all
perplexities; and his quiet conscience, looking back on a life not
altogether vain, for he was a good son to his father while his
father lived, and when evil days approached, he had proved himself
a cheerful Stoic.
It followed from John's inertia, that the duty of winding up the
estate fell into the hands of Charles. He managed it with no more
skill than might be expected of a sailor ashore, saved a bare
livelihood for John and nothing for the rest. Eight months later,
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