| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: the Lord's anger? Do ye call THIS a wind? Bethankit! Sirs,
this is but a temporary dispensation; this is but a puff of
wind, this is but a spit of rain and by with it. Already
there's a blue bow in the west, and the sun will take the
crown of the causeway again, and your things'll be dried upon
ye, and your flesh will be warm upon your bones. But O,
sirs, sirs! for the day of the Lord's anger!'
His rhetoric was set forth with an ear-piercing elocution,
and a voice that sometimes crashed like cannon. Such as it
was, it was the gift of all hill-preachers, to a singular
degree of likeness or identity. Their images scarce ranged
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: angling is something like poetry,--a man must be born to it. I
hooked myself instead of the fish; tangled my line in every tree;
lost my bait; broke my rod; until I gave up the attempt in despair,
and passed the day under the trees, reading old Izaak, satisfied
that it was his fascinating vein of honest simplicity and rural
feeling that had bewitched me, and not the passion for angling."
A NORWEGIAN HONEYMOON
"The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest
thorns, but that which bears the finest roses."--SOLOMON SINGLEWITZ:
The Life of Adam.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: them; not merely daring and endurance, but, better still, temper,
self-restraint, fairness, honour, unenvious approbation of
another's success, and all that "give and take" of life which
stand a man in such good stead when he goes forth into the world,
and without which, indeed, his success is always maimed and
partial.
Now: if the promoters of higher education for women will compel
girls to any training analogous to our public-school games; if,
for instance, they will insist on that most natural and wholesome
of all exercises, dancing, in order to develop the lower half of
the body; on singing, to expand the lungs and regulate the breath;
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