| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: duty to give them to each other, and not die till the wedding
was accomplished. Harry shared this adoration to quite a
reasonable extent, for a brother; but his admiration for Philip
Malbone was one that Kate did not quite share. Harry's quieter
mood had been dazzled from childhood by Philip, who had always
been a privileged guest in the household. Kate's clear,
penetrating, buoyant nature had divined Phil's weaknesses, and
had sometimes laughed at them, even from her childhood; though
she did not dislike him, for she did not dislike anybody. But
Harry was magnetized by him very much as women were; believed
him true, because he was tender, and called him only fastidious
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the
days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy
labour which thou takest under the sun.
ECC 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for
there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave,
whither thou goest.
ECC 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the
swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor
yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but
time and chance happeneth to them all.
ECC 9:12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: died during this period were cremated in the furnace connected
with the open altar.
The Chinese have been an agricultural people for thirty centuries
or more, and this characteristic is embodied in the Temple of
Agriculture, which occupies a park of not less than three hundred
and twenty acres of city property opposite the Temple of Heaven.
It has four great altars, with their adjacent halls, to the
spirits of Heaven, Earth, the Year, and the Ancestral Husbandman,
Shen Nung, to whom the temple is dedicated. It was used as the
camp of the American soldiers in 1900, and was well cared for. At
one time some of the soldiers upset one of the urns, and when it
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