| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: rested in the shade.
The workout did me good. It kept my body vigorous and cleared
my brain so that my studies were easy for me, and I advanced with
my education faster than ever before.
This proved to me that schooling should combine the book stuff
with the shop work. Instead of interfering with each other, they
help each other. The hand work makes the books seem more
enjoyable.
CHAPTER XLI
A PAVING CONTRACTOR PUTS ME ON THE PAVING
I was the only Republican elected that year. But for this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: Which he had taught her to despise?
But when her tutor will affect
Devotion, duty, and respect,
He fairly abdicates his throne,
The government is now her own;
He has a forfeiture incurred,
She vows to take him at his word,
And hopes he will not take it strange
If both should now their stations change
The nymph will have her turn, to be
The tutor; and the pupil he:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: were at stake."
"Are you talking of the diamonds? Poor boy, he wept; he did not want
them; I have them."
"Sleep now, my child. We will talk business when we wake--for," she
added, sighing, "you and I have business now; another person has come
between us."
"Ah! my dear mother, Paul will never be an obstacle to our happiness,
yours and mine," murmured Natalie, as she went to sleep.
"Poor darling! she little knows that the man has ruined her."
Madame Evangelista's soul was seized at that moment with the first
idea of avarice, a vice to which many become a prey as they grow aged.
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