| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: him correctly. By becoming a monk he showed contempt for all
that seemed most important to others and had seemed so to him
while he was in the service, and he now ascended a height from
which he could look down on those he had formerly envied. . . .
But it was not this alone, as his sister Varvara supposed, that
influenced him. There was also in him something else--a sincere
religious feeling which Varvara did not know, which intertwined
itself with the feeling of pride and the desire for pre-eminence,
and guided him. His disillusionment with Mary, whom he had
thought of angelic purity, and his sense of injury, were so
strong that they brought him to despair, and the despair led
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: If ours the faults, the virtues too are ours.
Why should our thoughts to distant countries roam,
When each refinement may be found at home?
Who travels now to ape the rich or great,
To deck an equipage and roll in state;
To court the graces, or to dance with ease,
Or by hypocrisy to strive to please?
Our free-born ancestors such arts despis'd;
Genuine sincerity alone they pris'd;
Their minds, with honest emulation fir'd;
To solid good--not ornament--aspir'd;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: for the murder, and the police weren't talking for publication. Not
a word about the Rajah's jewels. Washington saw to that! A young
potentate's son, practically the guest of the country, touring about
in a special for the sake of his education, and dashed near 'ending
it in the river out West if it hadn't been for the rescue you know
about, wouldn't look well in print; so there wasn't anything said
about the slather of gems that was the reward of heroism from a
grateful nabob, and we didn't get any help that way. All we knew
was that Deemer came East with the jewels, presumably to cash in on
them, and it looked as though Deemer "were pretty clever; that he
wore the money-belt for a stall, and that he had the sparklers
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