| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: quainted with them and sort of enter into their feel-
ings. Good Lord! I've seen how I can love those
trees, Mr. Wheaton! See the pink on their young
leaves! They know more than you and I. They
know how to grow young every spring."
Stephen did not tell Christopher how Ellen and
Myrtle were to work the farm with his aid. The two
women had bade him not. Christopher seemed to
have no care whatever about it. He was simply
happy. When Stephen left, he looked at him and
said, with the smile of a child, "Do you think I am
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: strive to take high place in the society of the living, measured, as
to all the truth and sincerity that are in them, by the place you
desire to take in this company of the Dead.
"The place you desire," and the place you FIT YOURSELF FOR, I must
also say; because, observe, this court of the past differs from all
living aristocracy in this:- it is open to labour and to merit, but
to nothing else. No wealth will bribe, no name overawe, no artifice
deceive, the guardian of those Elysian gates. In the deep sense, no
vile or vulgar person ever enters there. At the portieres of that
silent Faubourg St. Germain, there is but brief question:- "Do you
deserve to enter? Pass. Do you ask to be the companion of nobles?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: ISA 29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep
sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the
seers hath he covered.
ISA 29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a
book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying,
Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
ISA 29:12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying,
Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
ISA 29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near
me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed
their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the
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