| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "All things are possible to them that believe in God, my brother;
and she believes. But, indeed, Doctor Dee, the wise man, gave her
but this summer I know not what of prognostics and diagnostics
concerning me. I am born, it seems, under a cold and watery
planet, and need, if I am to be long-lived, to go nearer to the
vivifying heat of the sun, and there bask out my little life, like
fly on wall. To tell truth, he has bidden me spend no more winters
here in the East; but return to our native sea-breezes, there to
warm my frozen lungs; and has so filled my mother's fancy with
stories of sick men, who were given up for lost in Germany and
France, and yet renewed their youth, like any serpent or eagle, by
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: Watermouth, to whom he presently mentioned that Mrs. St. George had
been obliged to renounce the attempt to go further.
"She oughtn't to have come out at all," her ladyship rather
grumpily remarked.
"Is she so very much of an invalid?"
"Very bad indeed." And his hostess added with still greater
austerity: "She oughtn't really to come to one!" He wondered what
was implied by this, and presently gathered that it was not a
reflexion on the lady's conduct or her moral nature: it only
represented that her strength was not equal to her aspirations.
CHAPTER III
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: "Now let's understand each other on the spot, old
friend. I am only a farm bailiff, it is true; but I am
not poor, nevertheless. I have been very fortunate
this year -- you would be astonished to know how I
have thriven. I tell you the honest truth when I say
I could squander away as many as a dozen feasts like
this and never care THAT for the expense!" and I
snapped my fingers. I could see myself rise a foot at
a time in Marco's estimation, and when I fetched out
those last words I was become a very tower for style
and altitude. "So you see, you must let me have my
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