| 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: god-like, when the man who had borne with patience,
dignity, and sorrow for them the stings of lesser
things because they were lesser things, at last arose
and revealed himself superior, with a great height of
the spirit, with the power to crush.
When Jim stopped talking and went home, two
pale, shocked faces of women gazed after him from
the windows. Joe Beecher was sobbing like a child.
Finally his wife turned her frightened face upon him,
glad to have still some one to intimidate.
"For goodness' sake, Joe Beecher, stop crying
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: vigorously opposed, are properly the work of Damien. They
are the evidence of his success; they are what his heroism
provoked from the reluctant and the careless. Many were
before him in the field; Mr. Meyer, for instance, of whose
faithful work we hear too little: there have been many since;
and some had more worldly wisdom, though none had more
devotion, than our saint. Before his day, even you will
confess, they had effected little. It was his part, by one
striking act of martyrdom, to direct all men's eyes on that
distressful country. At a blow, and with the price of his
life, he made the place illustrious and public. And that, if
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: I took up a new thread of thought. "After all," - I said, " I suppose you
don't think these Selenites so infinitely wiser than men."
"They must know a lot more - or at least a lot of different things."
"Yes, but -" I hesitated.
"I think you'll quite admit, Cavor, that you're rather an exceptional
man."
"How?"
"Well, you - you're a rather lonely man - have been, that is. You haven't
married."
"Never wanted to. But why - "
"And you never grew richer than you happened to be? "
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