| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: boldness.
Dear readers, one might write a year upon this matter. A
lifetime of comparison and research could scarce suffice for
its elucidation. So here, if it please you, we shall let it
rest. Slight as these notes have been, I would that the
great founder of the system had been alive to see them. How
he had warmed and brightened, how his persuasive eloquence
would have fallen on the ears of Toby; and what a letter of
praise and sympathy would not the editor have received before
the month was out! Alas, the thing was not to be. Walter
Shandy died and was duly buried, while yet his theory lay
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Awakening & Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin: look at the darkies laying the cane, to thrash the pecan trees, and
catch fish in the back lake. She lived with them a whole week
long, giving them all of herself, and gathering and filling herself
with their young existence. They listened, breathless, when she
told them the house in Esplanade Street was crowded with workmen,
hammering, nailing, sawing, and filling the place with clatter.
They wanted. to know where their bed was; what had been done with
their rocking-horse; and where did Joe sleep, and where had Ellen
gone, and the cook? But, above all, they were fired with a desire
to see the little house around the block. Was there any place to
play? Were there any boys next door? Raoul, with pessimistic
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: their eyes and ears and take this to heart, lest some time we may
again be led astray from the pure Word of God to the lying vanities of
the devil. Then, too, all would be well; for parents would have more
joy, love, friendship, and concord in their houses; thus the children
could captivate their parents' hearts. On the other hand, when they are
obstinate, and will not do what they ought until a rod is laid upon
their back, they anger both God and their parents, whereby they deprive
themselves of this treasure and joy of conscience and lay up for
themselves only misfortune. Therefore, as every one complains, the
course of the world now is such that both young and old are altogether
dissolute and beyond control, have no reverence nor sense of honor, do
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