| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: internal decline of Spain may be said to have begun.
But the triumphant consolidation of the spiritual and temporal
powers of despotism, and the abnormal development of loyalty and
bigotry, were not the only evil results of the chronic struggle
in which Spain had been engaged. For many centuries, while
Christian Spain had been but a fringe of debatable border-land on
the skirts of the Moorish kingdom, perpetual guerilla warfare had
rendered consecutive labour difficult or impracticable; and the
physical configuration of the country contributed in bringing
about this result. To plunder the Moors across the border was
easier than to till the ground at home. Then as the Spaniards,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde: but of course if you refuse I will go and do it myself.'
"'Oh! on no account,' cried little Hans and he jumped out of bed,
and dressed himself, and went up to the barn.
"He worked there all day long, till sunset, and at sunset the
Miller came to see how he was getting on.
"'Have you mended the hole in the roof yet, little Hans?' cried the
Miller in a cheery voice.
"'It is quite mended,' answered little Hans, coming down the
ladder.
"'Ah'! said the Miller, 'there is no work so delightful as the work
one does for others.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: Thereupon she sat down upon the bench, and motioning
Challoner to take a place immediately beside her, began in
the following words, and with the greatest appearance of
enjoyment, to narrate the story of her life.
STORY OF THE DESTROYING ANGEL
MY father was a native of England, son of a cadet of a great,
ancient, but untitled family; and by some event, fault or
misfortune, he was driven to flee from the land of his birth
and to lay aside the name of his ancestors. He sought the
States; and instead of lingering in effeminate cities, pushed
at once into the far West with an exploring party of
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