| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: by what might easily cover six months' salary and profit, and I
could have kicked myself all round the village to have been such a
blamed ass, sitting boozing with that Case instead of attending to
my own affairs and taking stock.
However, there's no use crying over spilt milk. It was done now,
and couldn't be undone. All I could do was to get what was left of
it, and my new stuff (my own choice) in order, to go round and get
after the rats and cockroaches, and to fix up that store regular
Sydney style. A fine show I made of it; and the third morning when
I had lit my pipe and stood in the door-way and looked in, and
turned and looked far up the mountain and saw the cocoanuts waving
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto
them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
EXO 16:16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it
every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to
the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his
tents.
EXO 16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more,
some less.
EXO 16:18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much
had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered
every man according to his eating.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: of the company. And she sung Frank Davison's song, which he made
forty years ago; and all the others of the company joined to sing the
burthen with her. The ditty was this; but first the burthen:
Bright shines the sun; play, Beggars, play;
Here's scraps enough to serve to-day.
What noise of viols is so sweet,
As when our merry clappers ring ?
What mirth doth want where Beggars meet ?
A Beggar's life is for a King.
Eat, drink, and play, sleep when we list
Go where we will, so stocks be mist.
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