| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: martingale, whereupon Bob gave an exhibition of angelic goodness.
He fooled Daylight completely. At the end of half an hour of
goodness, Daylight, lured into confidence, was riding along at a
walk and rolling a cigarette, with slack knees and relaxed seat,
the reins lying on the animal's neck. Bob whirled abruptly and
with lightning swiftness, pivoting on his hind legs, his fore
legs just lifted clear of the ground. Daylight found himself
with his right foot out of the stirrup and his arms around the
animal's neck; and Bob took advantage of the situation to bolt
down the road. With a hope that he should not encounter Dede
Mason at that moment, Daylight regained his seat and checked in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: his early boyhood an obstinate battle against poor soil, bad
seed, and inclement seasons, wading deep in Ayrshire mosses,
guiding the plough in the furrow wielding "the thresher's
weary flingin'-tree;" and his education, his diet, and his
pleasures, had been those of a Scotch countryman. Now he
stepped forth suddenly among the polite and learned. We can
see him as he then was, in his boots and buckskins, his blue
coat and waistcoat striped with buff and blue, like a farmer
in his Sunday best; the heavy ploughman's figure firmly
planted on its burly legs; his face full of sense and
shrewdness, and with a somewhat melancholy air of thought,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: lived on his own allotment of land, separated from
that of his brother.
"I thought I should have been better off that
way," he said. "But I am now just as poor as
before."
"It is much better never to change, but to take
life as it comes," said Maria Semenovna. "Take
life as it comes," she repeated.
"Why, I wonder at you, Maria Semenovna,"
said the lame tailor. "You alone do the work,
and you are so good to everybody. But they
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