| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: and temple treasure was taken from them, and in their stead holy
courts were built for God. For these King Ioasaph dedicated the
riches and costly vestments and treasures of the idolatrous
temples, thereby making this worthless and superfluous material
fit for service, and profitable. And the foul fiends that dwelt
in their altars and temples were rigorously chased away and put
to flight; and these, in the hearing of many, loudly lamented the
misfortune that had overtaken them. And all the region round
about was freed from their dark deceit, and illuminated with the
light of the blameless Christian faith.
And, soothly, the king was a good example to all; and he inflamed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: last; 'the man who killed my father?'
'Nay,' said she, 'let us be just. I do believe before,
Heaven, he played the friendliest part. And he alone,
Asenath, can protect you in this land of death.'
At this the doctor returned, leading our two horses; and when
we were all in the saddle, he bade me ride on before, as he
had matter to discuss with Mrs. Fonblanque. They came at a
foot's pace, eagerly conversing in a whisper; and presently
after the moon rose and showed them looking eagerly in each
other's faces as they went, my mother laying her hand upon
the doctor's arm, and the doctor himself, against his usual
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: wholly inadmissible Bonapartists like Baron Gouraud, with whom,
however, Rogron thoughtlessly allied himself, though the upper
bourgeoisie had warned him against them.
The brother and sister were, therefore, forced to sit by the fire of
the stove in the dining-room, talking over their former business,
trying to recall the faces of their customers and other matters they
had intended to forget. By the end of the second winter ennui weighed
heavily on them. They did not know how to get through each day;
sometimes as they went to bed the words escaped them, "There's another
over!" They dragged out the morning by staying in bed, and dressing
slowly. Rogron shaved himself every day, examined his face, consulted
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