| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: "Of course it must be done," she said. "Granny
knows what she wants, and we must carry out all her
wishes. Shall I write the telegram for you, Auntie? If it
goes at once Ellen can probably catch tomorrow morning's
train." She pronounced the syllables of the name
with a peculiar clearness, as if she had tapped on two
silver bells.
"Well, it can't go at once. Jasper and the pantry-boy
are both out with notes and telegrams."
May turned to her husband with a smile. "But here's
Newland, ready to do anything. Will you take the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: yet are they so placed as to be ever wholly in the right.
Somewhere, in mid air between the disputants, like hovering Victory
in some design of a Greek battle, the truth hangs undiscerned. And
in the meanwhile what matter these uncertainties? Right is very
obvious; a great consent of the best of mankind, a loud voice
within us (whether of God, or whether by inheritance, and in that
case still from God), guide and command us in the path of duty. He
saw life very simple; he did not love refinements; he was a friend
to much conformity in unessentials. For (he would argue) it is in
this life as it stands about us, that we are given our problem; the
manners of the day are the colours of our palette; they condition,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: "The stains the day has brought to me.
"Beyond this door shall never go
The burdens that are mine to know;
The day is done, and here I leave
The petty things that vex and grieve;
What clings to me of hate and sin
To them I will not carry in;
Only the good shall go with me
For their devoted eyes to see.
"I will not burden them with cares,
Nor track the home with grim affairs;
A Heap O' Livin' |
