| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: she tried again, fought herself as feeling and thought resurged
in torment, and she succeeded, and then she knew.
"No--no--no!" she wailed. "You said you'd foregone your
vengeance. You promised not to kill Bishop Dyer."
"If you want to talk to me about him--leave off the Bishop. I
don't understand that name, or its use."
"Oh, hadn't you foregone your vengeance on--on Dyer? But--your
actions--your words--your guns--your terrible looks!... They
don't seem foregoing vengeance?"
"Jane, now it's justice."
"You'll--kill him?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: to wisdom, and my conclusion was exactly the same. Whereupon I made
another enemy of him, and of many others besides him.
Then I went to one man after another, being not unconscious of the enmity
which I provoked, and I lamented and feared this: but necessity was laid
upon me,--the word of God, I thought, ought to be considered first. And I
said to myself, Go I must to all who appear to know, and find out the
meaning of the oracle. And I swear to you, Athenians, by the dog I swear!
--for I must tell you the truth--the result of my mission was just this: I
found that the men most in repute were all but the most foolish; and that
others less esteemed were really wiser and better. I will tell you the
tale of my wanderings and of the 'Herculean' labours, as I may call them,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: In reconstructing the institutions of these shattered and overthrown States,
Congress should begin with a clean slate, and make clean work of it.
Let there be no hesitation. It would be a cowardly deference
to a defeated and treacherous President, if any account were made of
the illegitimate, one-sided, sham governments hurried into existence
for a malign purpose in the absence of Congress. These pretended governments,
which were never submitted to the people, and from participation in which
four millions of the loyal people were excluded by Presidential order,
should now be treated according to their true character, as shams
and impositions, and supplanted by true and legitimate governments,
in the formation of which loyal men, black and white, shall participate.
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