| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: shall proffer them the speech, 'Verily, ye are liars! And they shall
proffer on that day peace unto God; and that which they had devised
shall stray away from them.
Those who misbelieve and turn folks off God's path, we will add
torment to their torment, for that they were evildoers.
And on the day when we will raise up in every nation a witness
against them from among themselves, and we will bring thee as a
witness against these; for we have sent down to thee a book explaining
clearly everything, and a guidance, and a mercy, and glad tidings to
the believers.
Verily, God bids you do justice and good, and give to kindred (their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: Burnet tells us his lordship's strength lay in the knowledge of
England, and of all considerable men. "He understood," says the
bishop, "the size of their understandings and their tempers; and
he knew how to apply himself to them so dexterously, that though
by his changing sides so often it was very visible how little he
was to be depended on, yet he was to the last much trusted by all
the discontented party. He had no regard to truth or justice."
As rich in resources as he was poor in honour, he renewed a plan
for depriving the Duke of York from succession to the crown;
which, though it had failed when formerly attempted, he trusted
might now succeed. This was to declare the Duke of Monmouth the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: the bottle than the trencher. His thin white beard gave a threatening
expression to his profile by the stiffness of its short bristles. The
eyes, too small for his enormous face, and sloping like those of a
pig, betrayed cunning and also laziness; but at this particular moment
they were gleaming with the intent look he cast upon the river. The
sole garments of this curious figure were an old blouse, formerly
blue, and trousers of the coarse burlap used in Paris to wrap bales.
All city people would have shuddered at the sight of his broken
sabots, without even a wisp of straw to stop the cracks; and it is
very certain that the blouse and the trousers had no money value at
all except to a paper-maker.
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