| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: Here are our chattels restored to us, and we shall guard our
brother, and shall have an additional measure beside that- a small
measure.'
He said, 'I will by no means send him with you until you give me a
compact from God that ye will surely bring him to me, unless ye be
encompassed.'
So when they had given him their compact he said, 'God over what
ye say has charge.'
And he said, 'O my sons! enter not by one gate, but enter by several
gates; but I cannot avail you aught against God. Judgment is only
God's; upon Him do I rely, and on Him do the reliant rely.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: taken me up. She turned it off with a laugh. "I've good eyes,
good teeth, a good digestion and a good temper. I'm sound of wind
and limb!" Nothing could have been more characteristic than her
blush and her tears, nothing less acceptable to her than to be
thought not perfect in every particular. She couldn't submit to
the imputation of a flaw. I expressed my delight in what she told
me, assuring her I should always do battle for her; and as if to
rejoin her companions she got up from her place on my mother's
toes. The young men presented their backs to us; they were leaning
on the rail of the cliff. Our incident had produced a certain
awkwardness, and while I was thinking of what next to say she
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: beautiful little poem, that it is "witchery, witchery, witchery," and now we
wonder that we could have been so stupid as not to have discovered it was
exactly that, long ago. But the glory of the summer were the orioles and the
scarlet tanagers; the orioles with their marvellous notes, and the tanagers in
their scarlet golfing coats glinting here and there in the sunshine. Nests
everywhere, and Tattine on one long voyage of discovery, until she knew where
at least twenty little bird families were going to crack-shell their way into
life. But there was one little family of whose whereabouts she knew nothing,
nor anyone else for that matter, until "Hark, what was that?"--Mabel and
Rudolph and Tattine were running across the end of the porch, and it was
Rudolph who brought them to a standstill.
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