| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: Of the Illyrian main,- will ever dawn
That day when I thy deeds may celebrate,
Ever that day when through the whole wide world
I may renown thy verse- that verse alone
Of Sophoclean buskin worthy found?
With thee began, to thee shall end, the strain.
Take thou these songs that owe their birth to thee,
And deign around thy temples to let creep
This ivy-chaplet 'twixt the conquering bays.
Scarce had night's chilly shade forsook the sky
What time to nibbling sheep the dewy grass
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: "Then when you oppose beer you are doing it to keep yourself
from getting sick, aren't you? Do you really care a darn whether
those fellows get sick at the stomach or not?"
"Certainly, I--"
"You don't want them to get sick at the stomach ?"
"Then, why did you give that lecture on corned beef and make
those strong fellows all sick at the stomach while you enjoyed
your own dinner?"
"I didn't know it would disturb them so. Besides I wanted to
keep them from getting sick later."
"Well, they prefer to have their health now, and wait for their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: was the only Sister there. That seemed very strange to Bessie Bell.
One day the strangest thing of all so far happened.
One little girl called another little girl with whom she was
playing, ``Sister.''
Bessie Bell laughed at that.
``Oh, she is not a Sister!'' said Bessie Bell.
``Yes, she is; she is my sister!'' said the little girl.
``No,'' said Bessie Bell, just as great grown people said to her when
she remembered strange things, ``No, there never was in the world a
Sister like that!''
Then the smaller of the little girls who were playing together ran
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