| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: inspection--every page correct, and showing a handsome balance.
But isn't it a mistake not to allow us to make our own mistakes,
to learn for ourselves, to live our own lives? Must we be
always working for 'the balance,' in one thing or another?
I want to be myself--to get outside of this everlasting,
profitable 'plan'--to let myself go, and lose myself for a while
at least--to do the things that I want to do, just because
I want to do them."
"My boy," said his mother, anxiously, "you are not going to do
anything
wrong or foolish? You know the falsehood of that old proverb
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: city of the winds. Nor did he become an archer of the Queen's
Body-Guard, which is the Chiltern Hundreds of the distasted golfer.
He did not even frequent the Evening Club, where his colleague Tait
(in my day) was so punctual and so genial. So that in some ways he
stood outside of the lighter and kindlier life of his new home. I
should not like to say that he was generally popular; but there as
elsewhere, those who knew him well enough to love him, loved him
well. And he, upon his side, liked a place where a dinner party
was not of necessity unintellectual, and where men stood up to him
in argument.
The presence of his old classmate, Tait, was one of his early
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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: since He so highly esteems it, is so highly pleased with it, and
rewards it so richly, and besides enforces punishment so rigorously on
those who act contrariwise.
All this I say that it may be well impressed upon the young. For no one
believes how necessary this commandment is, although it has not been
esteemed and taught hitherto under the papacy. These are simple and
easy words, and everybody thinks he knew them a fore; therefore men
pass them lightly by, are gaping after other matters, and do not see
and believe that God is so greatly offended if they be disregarded, nor
that one does a work so well pleasing and precious if he follows them.
In this commandment belongs a further statement regarding all kinds of
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