| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: the raft, returning shortly afterward with his blanket. This he laid down and
rolled himself in it. Presently from under his coon-skin cap came the words:
"Wal, I've turned in, an' I advise ye all to do the same."
All save Joe and Nell acted on Jeff's suggestion. For a long time the young
couple sat close together on the bank, gazing at the moonlight on the river.
The night was perfect. A cool wind fanned the dying embers of the fire and
softly stirred the leaves. Earlier in the evening a single frog had voiced his
protest against the loneliness; but now his dismal croak was no longer heard.
A snipe, belated in his feeding, ran along the sandy shore uttering his
tweet-tweet, and his little cry, breaking in so softly on the silence, seemed
only to make more deeply felt the great vast stillness of the night.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: ridiculous.
PROTARCHUS: That is very true, but I do not as yet see where is the
admixture of pleasures and pains.
SOCRATES: Well, then, let us examine the nature of envy.
PROTARCHUS: Proceed.
SOCRATES: Is not envy an unrighteous pleasure, and also an unrighteous
pain?
PROTARCHUS: Most true.
SOCRATES: There is nothing envious or wrong in rejoicing at the
misfortunes of enemies?
PROTARCHUS: Certainly not.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: with myself."
"So much the worse!" replied the cardinal, "so much the
worse! Sire, I should wish your majesty to ask of me
something of importance, even a sacrifice; but whatever it
may be that you ask me, I am ready to set your heart at rest
by granting it, my dear sire."
"Well, this is what brings me here," said the king, with a
beating of the heart that had no equal except the beating of
the heart of the minister; "I have just received a visit
from my brother, the king of England."
Mazarin bounded in his bed as if he had been put in relation
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