| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "that I should signify my request, and, whatever it were, it
should be granted, for the sake of his royal brother of
Luggnagg." This interpreter was a person employed to transact
affairs with the Hollanders. He soon conjectured, by my
countenance, that I was a European, and therefore repeated his
majesty's commands in Low Dutch, which he spoke perfectly well.
I answered, as I had before determined, "that I was a Dutch
merchant, shipwrecked in a very remote country, whence I had
travelled by sea and land to Luggnagg, and then took shipping for
Japan; where I knew my countrymen often traded, and with some of
these I hoped to get an opportunity of returning into Europe: I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: before they came to feed in it; and coarser, again, if they shall return to
their former pasture; and, again, return to a finer wool, being fed in the
fine wool ground: which I tell you, that you may the better believe that I
am certain, if I catch a Trout in one meadow, he shall be white and
faint, and very like to be lousy; and, as certainly, it I catch a Trout in
the next meadow, he shall be strong, and red, and lusty, and much
better meat Trust me, scholar, I have caught many a Trout in a
particular meadow, that the very shape and the enamelled colour of him
hath been such as hath joyed me to look on him: and I have then, with
much pleasure, concluded with Solomon, "Everything is beautiful in his
season".
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: spirit that held yours back. Oh, she's a wonderful girl. Duane,
she never gave up, never lost her nerve for a moment. Well,
we're going to take you home, and she'll go with us. Colonel
Longstreth left for Louisiana right after the fight. I advised
it. There was great excitement. It was best for him to leave."
"Have I--a--chance--to recover?"
"Chance? Why, man," exclaimed the Captain, "you'll get well!
You'll pack a sight of lead all your life. But you can stand
that. Duane, the whole Southwest knows your story. You need
never again be ashamed of the name Buck Duane. The brand outlaw
is washed out. Texas believes you've been a secret ranger all
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