| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: cause--my course was still easy. I would ride away, and
when I had proceeded a mile or so, tie up my horse in
the forest and return to the wooden bridge. Thence I
could watch the garden and front of the Chateau until
time and chance gave me the opportunity I sought.
So I saw my way quite clearly; and when the fellow below
called me, reminding me rudely that I must be going, and
that it was six o'clock, I was ready with my answer. I
shouted sulkily that I was coming, and, after a decent
delay, I took up my saddle and bags and went down.
Viewed by the light of a cold morning, the inn-room
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: ye shall know that I am the LORD.
KI1 20:29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And
so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the
children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in
one day.
KI1 20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall
fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And
Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
KI1 20:31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard
that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray
thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: And give your left hand to grammarians;
And when you seem, as many a time you may,
To have no other friend than hope, remember
That you are not the first, or yet the last.
The best of life, until we see beyond
The shadows of ourselves (and they are less
Than even the blindest of indignant eyes
Would have them) is in what we do not know.
Make, then, for all your fears a place to sleep
With all your faded sins; nor think yourselves
Egregious and alone for your defects
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