| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: The plan of going back to St. Gedeon, to wait for the return of the
lawyer, was not carried out. Several of the little gods that use
their own indiscretion in arranging the pieces on the puzzle-map of
life, interfered with it.
The first to meddle was that highly irresponsible deity with the bow
and arrows, who has no respect for rank or age, but reserves all his
attention for sex.
When the camp on the St. Maurice dissolved, Jean went down with
Pierre to Three Rivers for a short visit. There was a snug house on
a high bank above the river, a couple of miles from the town. A
wife and an armful of children gave assurance that the race of La
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: or seminal idea, which, enlarged by the gradual
accretion of matter stored in the mind, is by the
warmth of fancy easily expanded into flowers, and
sometimes ripened into fruit.
The most frequent difficulty by which the authors
of these petty compositions are distressed, arises
from the perpetual demand of novelty and change.
The compiler of a system of science lays his invention
at rest, and employs only his judgment, the
faculty exerted with least fatigue. Even the relator
of feigned adventures, when once the principal
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: sound of approaching footsteps in the grassy court announced
a visitor. It was the ostler from the 'Green Dragon'
bringing a letter for Mr. Archer. Nance saw her hero's face
contract and then relax again at sight of it; and she thought
that she knew why, for the sprawling, gross black characters
of the address were easily distinguishable from the fine
writing on the former letter that had so much disturbed him.
He opened it and began to read; while the ostler sat down to
table with a pot of ale, and proceeded to make himself
agreeable after his fashion.
'Fine doings down our way, Miss Nance,' said he. 'I haven't
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