| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: good works by the permission of their Lord; that is great grace.
Gardens of Eden shall they enter, adorned therein with bracelets
of gold and pearls; and their garments therein shall be silk; and they
shall say, 'Praise belongs to God, who has removed from us our
grief; verily, our Lord is forgiving, grateful! who has made us alight
in an enduring abode of His grace, wherein no toil shall touch us, and
there shall touch us no fatigue.'
But those who misbelieve, for them is the fire of hell; it shall not
be decreed for them to die, nor shall aught of the torment be
lightened from them; thus do we reward every misbeliever; and they
shall shriek therein, 'O our Lord! bring us forth, and we will do
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Calliope, the immortal muse.'
And soon they saw the blue rocks shining like spires and
castles of gray glass, while an ice-cold wind blew from them
and chilled all the heroes' hearts. And as they neared they
could see them heaving, as they rolled upon the long sea-
waves, crashing and grinding together, till the roar went up
to heaven. The sea sprang up in spouts between them, and
swept round them in white sheets of foam; but their heads
swung nodding high in air, while the wind whistled shrill
among the crags.
The heroes' hearts sank within them, and they lay upon their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: "Holds something sacred, something undefiled;
Some pledge and keepsake of their higher nature.
And, like the diamond in the dark, retains
Some quenchless gleam of the celestial light."
On Hoskens fully realizing the fact that his
victim was no more, he exclaimed "By thunder I
am a used-up man!" The sudden disappointment,
and the loss of two thousand dollars, was more
than he could endure: so he drank more than ever,
and in a short time died, raving mad with delirium
tremens.
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