| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: mittantur ac tantae nationes coniungantur. Q. Titurium Sabinum legatum
cum legionibus tribus in Venellos, Coriosolites Lexoviosque mittit, qui
eam manum distinendam curet. D. Brutum adulescentem classi Gallicisque
navibus, quas ex Pictonibus et Santonis reliquisque pacatis regionibus
convenirel iusserat, praeficit et, cum primum possit, in Venetos
proficisci iubet. Ipse eo pedestribus copiis contendit.
Erant eius modi fere situs oppidorum ut posita in extremis lingulis
promunturiisque neque pedibus aditum haberent, cum ex alto se acstus
incitavisset, quod [bis] accidit semper horarum XII spatio, neque navibus,
quod rursus minuente aestu naves in vadis adflictarentur. Ita utraque re
oppidorum oppugnatio impediebatur. Ac si quando magnitudine operis forte
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: future selves and of those of their descendants; and to prefer to
glide along the easy current of life, rather than to make, when
it is necessary, a strong and sudden effort to a higher purpose.
It is believed by some that modern society will be ever changing
its aspect; for myself, I fear that it will ultimately be too
invariably fixed in the same institutions, the same prejudices,
the same manners, so that mankind will be stopped and
circumscribed; that the mind will swing backwards and forwards
forever, without begetting fresh ideas; that man will waste his
strength in bootless and solitary trifling; and, though in
continual motion, that humanity will cease to advance.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry: In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and
reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free--
if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which
we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble
struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged
ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest
shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight!
An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable
an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week,
or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British
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