| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: I that have done some hating in my time
See now no time for hate; I that have left,
Fading behind me like familiar lights
That are to shine no more for my returning,
Home, friends, and honors, -- I that have lost all else
For wisdom, and the wealth of it, say now
To you that out of wisdom has come love,
That measures and is of itself the measure
Of works and hope and faith. Your longest hours
Are not so long that you may torture them
And harass not yourselves; and the last days
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: the growing influence thus acquired by combinations of
foreigners, over the aboriginal tribes inhabiting its
territories, and endeavored to counteract it. For this purpose,
as early as 1796, the government sent out agents to establish
rival trading houses on the frontier, so as to supply the wants
of the Indians, to link their interests and feelings with those
of the people of the United States, and to divert this important
branch of trade into national channels.
The expedition, however, was unsuccessful, as most commercial
expedients are prone to be, where the dull patronage of
government is counted upon to outvie the keen activity of private
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: right to pass.
However, Michael Strogoff and Nadia were not the only
travelers on their way from Perm to Ekaterenburg. At the
first stages, the courier of the Czar had learnt that a carriage
preceded them, but, as there was no want of horses, he did
not trouble himself about that.
During the day, halts were made for food alone. At
the post-houses could be found lodging and provision. Be-
sides, if there was not an inn, the house of the Russian
peasant would have been no less hospitable. In the villages,
which are almost all alike, with their white-walled, green-
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