| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: another, every Spaniard set all the sail he could.
There was silence for a few minutes throughout the English fleet;
and then cheer upon cheer of triumph rent the skies. It was over.
The Spaniard had refused battle, and thinking only of safety, was
pressing downward toward the Straits again. The Invincible Armada
had cast away its name, and England was saved.
"But he will never get there, sir," said old Yeo, who had come upon
deck to murmur his Nunc Domine, and gaze upon that sight beyond all
human faith or hope: "Never, never will he weather the Flanders
shore, against such a breeze as is coming up. Look to the eye of
the wind, sir, and see how the Lord is fighting for His people!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: white on the shore. A great land rises from it, and he shall see upon the
mountain-tops burning gold."
The mother said, "He shall reach it?"
And he smiled curiously.
She said, "It is real?"
And he said, "What IS real?"
And she looked up between his half-closed eyelids, and said, "Touch."
And he leaned forward and laid his hand upon the sleeper, and whispered to
it, smiling; and this only she heard--"This shall be thy reward--that the
ideal shall be real to thee."
And the child trembled; but the mother slept on heavily and her brain-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: Such is the uncertainty in which we are always
likely to remain with regard to questions wherein
we have most interest, and which every day affords
us fresh opportunity to examine: we may examine,
indeed, but we never can decide, because our faculties
are unequal to the subject; we see a little, and
form an opinion; we see more, and change it.
This inconstancy and unsteadiness, to which we
must so often find ourselves liable, ought certainly
to teach us moderation and forbearance towards
those who cannot accommodate themselves to our
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