| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: I said to God, "Why do they not wash it out?"
God said, "They cannot."
And they took small stones and put them down along the edge of the curtain
to keep it down. Then the men and women sat down again at the tables.
And I said to God, "Will those stones keep it down?"
God said, "What think you?"
I said, "If the wind blew?"
God said, "If the wind blew?"
And the feast went on.
And suddenly I cried to God, "If one should rise among them, even of
themselves, and start up from the table and should cast away his cup, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: had no education. But it is better to have no education than a
false one, for I was left free to know the truth when I found it.
I went into the mills when I should have been in school. As a
working man I have helped get better conditions for the worker.
Think how much more I could have done if I had had an education.
Your leaders have done much for the iron workers because they
could see farther than the common man. The worker with an
education can see far. He can judge quickly and be guided
rightly, for he has knowledge to guide him. I have knelt and
prayed to God to direct me. Now I know He has answered my prayer.
My mission is to bring to the poor man's boy the ample education
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: along the road. The two men held Mimi between them, the arms of
both of them round her as though protectingly. As they went, there
was a sudden rise in the ground; but the horses, breathing heavily,
dashed up it at racing speed, not slackening their pace when the
hill fell away again, leaving them to hurry along the downgrade.
It would be foolish to say that neither Adam nor Mimi had any fear
in returning to Doom Tower. Mimi felt it more keenly than her
husband, whose nerves were harder, and who was more inured to
danger. Still she bore up bravely, and as usual the effort was
helpful to her. When once she was in the study in the top of the
turret, she almost forgot the terrors which lay outside in the dark.
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