| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: unsettled and discouraged, and filled full of that trumpeting
anger with which young men regard injustices in the first
blush of youth; although in a few years they will tamely
acquiesce in their existence, and knowingly profit by their
complications. Yet all this while he suffered many indignant
pangs. And once, when he put on his boots, like any other
unripe donkey, to run away from home, it was his best
consolation that he was now, at a single plunge, to free
himself from the responsibility of this wealth that was not
his, and do battle equally against his fellows in the warfare
of life.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: jerking his head back in the direction of the bungalow as Baynes
turned his eyes upon him at the remark. "He thinks a lot of the
girl," continued Hanson, "and don't want nobody to marry her
and take her away; but it looks to me as though he was doin'
her more harm than good in sendin' you away. She ought to
marry some time, and she couldn't do better than a fine young
gentleman like you."
Baynes, who had at first felt inclined to take offense at the
mention of his private affairs by this common fellow, was
mollified by Hanson's final remark, and immediately commenced
to see in him a man of fine discrimination.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: might lay hold on this opportunity, in the heat of his devotion, of
sacrificing me to his prophet.
These apprehensions were without ground. I contracted an
acquaintance, which was soon improved into a friendship, with these
people; they offered me part of their provisions, and I gave them
some of mine. As we were in a place abounding with oysters--some of
which were large and good to eat, others more smooth and shining, in
which pearls are found--they gave me some of those they gathered;
but whether it happened by trifling our time away in oyster-
catching, or whether the wind was not favourable, we came to Suaquem
later than the vessel I had left, in which were seven of my
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