| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: running down her face and give us a whacking box on
the ear, and then hugged us and kissed us and boxed
us again, and just couldn't seem to get enough of it,
she was so glad to see us; and she says:
"Where HAVE you been a-loafing to, you good-for-nothing
trash! I've been that worried about you I didn't know what
to do. Your traps has been here ever so long, and I've
had supper cooked fresh about four times so as to have it
hot and good when you come, till at last my patience is
just plumb wore out, and I declare I--I--why I could skin
you alive! You must be starving, poor things!--set down,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: him, but to be speedily relieved from this disreputable
business.
The man had continued to regard his visitor with undisguised
anxiety, and began once more to press him for his errand.
'I am here,' said Challoner, 'simply to do a service between
two ladies; and I must ask you, without further delay, to
summon Miss Fonblanque, into whose hands alone I am
authorised to deliver the letter that I bear.'
A growing wonder began to mingle on the man's face with the
lines of solicitude. 'I am Miss Fonblanque,' he said; and
then, perceiving the effect of this communication, 'Good
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tao Teh King by Lao-tze: their condition. Therefore all things without exception honour the
Tao, and exalt its outflowing operation.
2. This honouring of the Tao and exalting of its operation is not the
result of any ordination, but always a spontaneous tribute.
3. Thus it is that the Tao produces (all things), nourishes them,
brings them to their full growth, nurses them, completes them, matures
them, maintains them, and overspreads them.
4. It produces them and makes no claim to the possession of them; it
carries them through their processes and does not vaunt its ability in
doing so; it brings them to maturity and exercises no control over
them;--this is called its mysterious operation.
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