| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: philosophy; they assured her of the paternal care of God. The
thought strengthened and revived her, and when Katy appeared to
announce a new trial, she received the intelligence with
calmness, and felt more ready than ever before to leave her
destiny in the hands of Heaven. For an hour she conversed with
Katy on this subject, and succeeded in giving her some new views
in relation to the meaning of the words she had so often repeated
that afternoon.
The poor girl felt as she had never felt before. Upon her
devolved the responsibility of providing for her mother. She had
no other friend, and that day seemed to open a new era in her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: But that I know Loue is begun by Time:
And that I see in passages of proofe,
Time qualifies the sparke and fire of it:
Hamlet comes backe: what would you vndertake,
To show your selfe your Fathers sonne indeed,
More then in words?
Laer. To cut his throat i'th' Church
Kin. No place indeed should murder Sancturize;
Reuenge should haue no bounds: but good Laertes
Will you doe this, keepe close within your Chamber,
Hamlet return'd, shall know you are come home:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: in the cool of the cottonwoods by the water, or slowly moved
among the sage-brush, feeding upon the grass that in those
forever departed years was plentiful and tall. The steers came
fat off his unenclosed range and fattened still more in his large
pasture; while his small pasture, a field some eight miles
square, was for several seasons given to the Judge's horses, and
over this ample space there played and prospered the good colts
which he raised from Paladin, his imported stallion. After he
married, I have been assured that his wife's influence became
visible in and about the house at once. Shade trees were planted,
flowers attempted, and to the chickens was added the much more
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