| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: call it the widest truth the wilderness has to teach:--
"In memory the pleasures of a camping trip
strengthen with time, and the disagreeables weaken."
I don't care how hard an experience you have had,
nor how little of the pleasant has been mingled with
it, in three months your general impression of that
trip will be good. You will look back on the hard
times with a certain fondness of recollection.
I remember one trip I took in the early spring
following a long drive on the Pine River. It rained
steadily for six days. We were soaked to the skin
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: crown is thine also; but it must thou give unto thy father, who,
by thy means, turned from his evil way unto the Lord, and was
truly penitent." But Ioasaph was as one sore vexed, and said,
"How is it possible that, for his repentance alone, my father
should receive reward equal to mine, that have laboured so much?"
Thus spake he, and straightway thought that he saw Barlaam, as it
were, chiding him and saying, "These are my words, Ioasaph, which
I once spake unto thee, saying, `When thou waxest passing rich,
thou wilt not be glad to distribute,' and thou understoodest not
my saying. But now, why art thou displeased at thy father's
equality with thee in honour, and art not rather glad at heart
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: winter, because of a desire on the part of the ladies of the town
to help the home industry of the neighbourhood. Mrs. Marie Kniepp
was one of the fashionable women of the town, and several days
before the Professor was murdered, this woman had thrown herself
from the second-story window of her home, and her husband, whose
passionate eccentric nature was well known, had been a changed
man from that hour.
It was his deep grief at the loss of his beloved wife that had
turned his hair grey and had drawn lines of terrible sorrow in his
face - said gossip. But Muller, who did not know Kniepp personally
although he had been taking a great interest in his affairs for the
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