| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: John Bunyan, author of "The Pilgrim's Progress."
He was the son of a tinker, and was born within a mile of Bedford
town in the year 1628. He imbibed at an early age the spirit of
Puritanism, fought in the civil wars, took to himself a wife, and
turned preacher. Six months after the merry monarch landed,
Bunyan was flung into Bedford gaol, where, rather than refrain
from puritanical discourses, in the utterance of which he
believed himself divinely inspired, he remained, with some short
intervals of liberty, for twelve years. When offered freedom at
the price of silence, he replied, "If you let me out to-day, I
will preach to-morrow." Nay, even in his confinement he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: firmly. "I have made an engagement with Queen
Ann of Oogaboo to help her conquer the world,
and I cannot break my word for the sake of being
eaten by a Rak."
"Oh; that's different," said the monster. "If
you've an engagement, don't let me detain you."
So Files felt around in the dark and grasped
the hand of the trembling Queen, whom he led
away from the flapping, sighing Rak. They
stumbled over the stones for a way but presently
began to see dimly the path ahead of them, as
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: Dwarf's dwelling. The door opened, and Hobbie witnessed with his
own eyes that phenomenon which he had frequently heard mentioned.
Two human figures (if that of the Dwarf could be termed such)
issued from the solitary abode of the Recluse, and stood as if in
converse together in the open air. The taller form then stooped,
as if taking something up which lay beside the door of the hut,
then both moved forward a little way, and again halted, as in
deep conference. All Hobbie's superstitious terrors revived on
witnessing this'spectacle. That the Dwarf would open his
dwelling to a mortal guest, was as improbable as that any one
would choose voluntarily to be his nocturnal visitor; and, under
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