| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: you curse him? O, God forbid!'
The energy of her address surprised him from his mood. He
looked upon her, tearless and confused. 'Let me go to my
bed,' he said at last, and he rose, and, shaking as with
ague, but quite silent, lighted his candle, and left the
kitchen.
Poor Nance! the pleasant current of her dreams was all
diverted. She beheld a golden city, where she aspired to
dwell; she had spoken with a deity, and had told herself that
she might rise to be his equal; and now the earthly ligaments
that bound her down had been tightened. She was like a tree
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: consecrated as bishop, not one of those works would have any
validity; they would be foolish, childish, and ridiculous. Thus a
Christian, being consecrated by his faith, does good works; but
he is not by these works made a more sacred person, or more a
Christian. That is the effect of faith alone; nay, unless he were
previously a believer and a Christian, none of his works would
have any value at all; they would really be impious and damnable
sins.
True, then, are these two sayings: "Good works do not make a good
man, but a good man does good works"; "Bad works do not make a
bad man, but a bad man does bad works." Thus it is always
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: It
was about one A.M. that the lights were last seen. At 2.15 A.M.
a policeman observed the place in darkness, but the strager's
motor still at the curb. By 4 o'clock the motor was certainly
gone.
It was at 6 o'clock that a hesitant, foreign voice on
the telephone asked Dr Wilson to call at my house and bring me
out of a peculiar faint. This call - a long-distance one - was
later traced to a public booth in the North Station in Boston,
but no sign of the lean foreigner was ever unearthed.
When the
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