| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: advantage to
a good name and a good institution in their connection in the
public mind.
It helps them both. Remember that, my boy. Of course at the
beginning
you will have to practise it in a small way; later, you will have
larger opportunities. But try to put your gifts where they can
be
identified and do good all around. You'll see the wisdom of it
in
the long run."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: wrought bench and watched them play.
Then when that hour was exactly passed Sister Angela always came
with a basket of netted canes, an Indian basket, on her arm. In the
Indian basket were little cakes--such nice little cakes--always they
had caraway seeds in them.
One day Sister Mary Felice said: ``Sister Angela, did Sister
Ignatius put too many caraway seeds in the cakes this time?''
Sister Angela said: ``I think not, Sister Mary Felice. Will you try
one?''
Sister Mary Felice said: ``I thank you, Sister Angela.''
Then Sister Mary Felice took one to try.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: thoughts and higher aspirations. They do not say, "Free
yourselves from your own slavery," but rather, "If you can
possibly manage it, do not set quite so much store on the things
of this world."
And they do not know what the things of this world are!
I went off to see cattle killed, by way of clearing my head,
which, as you will perceive, was getting muddled. They say every
Englishman goes to the Chicago stock-yards. You shall find them
about six miles from the city; and once having seen them, you
will never forget the sight.
As far as the eye can reach stretches a town-ship of cattle-pens,
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