| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: she said.
"Lady, you wait here," he replied, slowly, as if his thought did
not come swiftly. "I'll go fetch the porter."
She thanked him, and as he went out, closing the door, she sat
down in considerable relief. It occurred to her that she should
have mentioned her brother's name, Then she fell to wondering
what living with such uncouth cowboys had done to Alfred. He had
been wild enough in college, and she doubted that any cowboy
could have taught him much. She alone of her family bad ever
believed in any latent good in Alfred Hammond, and her faith had
scarcely survived the two years of silence.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: interrupted ourselves. The two chief ends of conversation are, to
entertain and improve those we are among, or to receive those
benefits ourselves; which whoever will consider, cannot easily run
into either of those two errors; because, when any man speaketh in
company, it is to be supposed he doth it for his hearers' sake, and
not his own; so that common discretion will teach us not to force
their attention, if they are not willing to lend it; nor, on the
other side, to interrupt him who is in possession, because that is
in the grossest manner to give the preference to our own good
sense.
There are some people whose good manners will not suffer them to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: EZE 16:29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of
Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith.
EZE 16:30 How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou
doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
EZE 16:31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of
every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not
been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
EZE 16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh
strangers instead of her husband!
EZE 16:33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to
all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every
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