| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: dens for a time."
Of course. What more exasperating and inexpiable insult to the
ruling powers was possible than this? To persist in being needy and
wretched, when a whole bureaucracy is toiling day and night to make
them prosperous and happy? An insult only to be avenged in blood.
Remark meanwhile, that this centralised bureaucracy was a failure;
that after all the trouble taken to govern these masses, they were
not governed, in the sense of being made better, and not worse. The
truth is, that no centralised bureaucracy, or so-called "paternal
government," yet invented on earth, has been anything but a failure,
or is it like to be anything else: because it is founded on an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: Naught but her veil amid those deserts wide
She had to bind his wounds, in so great need,
But love could other bands, though strange, provide,
And pity wept for joy to see that deed,
For with her amber locks cut off, each wound
She tied: O happy man, so cured so bound!
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For why her veil was short and thin, those deep
And cruel hurts to fasten, roll and blind,
Nor salve nor simple had she, yet to keep
Her knight on live, strong charms of wondrous kind
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: grasp of the officers without effort and was now
trying to pull the battered crown from off his
eyes.
Shaggy, who was always polite, helped him to
do this and when the man was free and could
see again he looked at his visitors with evident
amazement.
"Well, well, well!" he exclaimed. "Where did
you come from and how did you get here?"
Betsy tried to answer him, for Queen Ann was
surly and silent.
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