| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: will----"
Mary shook her head in reproachful protest.
"Don't tease me, dear doctor man. I've just this
one day more with you. I'm counting each precious
hour."
"Forgive me!" he cried gayly. "I won't tease you
any more. Come, we'll run over now and see our
neighbor's new bungalow before you go. You admire this
one and threaten to duplicate it. He has built a
better one."
"I don't believe it."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: Sister Helen Vincula said: ``It was Sister Theckla who spent that
summer with the sick, and it was Sister Theckla who brought the
child to us. Can you not go home with us? Or I could write to you
at once--''
``No,'' said the lady. ``I will go. The child shall not leave me--'
``And we will talk to Sister Theckla, and she will tell us all that
she knows, and then--God willing--we shall know all.''
The lady said: ``Yes, we will all go together. We will go at once.''
And so it was that when Sister Theckla had told all that she knew,
then the lady knew (as she always had said she had known), past all
doubting, that Bessie Bell had really found what she most wished
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: communicate; it loves others, for it depends on them for its
existence; it sanctions and encourages to all delights that
are not unkind in themselves; if it lived to a thousand, it
would not make excision of a single humorous passage; and
while the self-improver dwindles towards the prig, and, if he
be not of an excellent constitution may even grow deformed
into an Obermann, the very name and appearance of a happy man
breathe of good-nature, and help the rest of us to live.
In the case of Thoreau, so great a show of doctrine demands
some outcome in the field of action. If nothing were to be
done but build a shanty beside Walden Pond, we have heard
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