| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: for it any hire; my hire is only with the Lord of the worlds. So
fear God and obey me.' They said, 'Shall we believe in thee, when
the reprobates follow thee? 'He said, I did not know what they were
doing; their account is only with my Lord, if ye but perceive. And I
am not one to drive away the believers, I am only a plain warner.'
They said, 'Verily, if thou desist not, O Noah! thou shalt surely be
of those who are stoned!' Said he, 'My Lord! verily, my people call me
liar; open between me and between them an opening, and save me and
those of the believers who are with me!'
So we saved him and those with him in the laden ark, then we drowned
the rest; verily, in that is a sign, but most of them will never be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: reined in the horse as if somebody had stood on the roadside and
stopped her. She even gave that quick reassuring nod of her head
which was usually made to answer for a bow, but I discovered that
she was looking eagerly at a tall ash-tree that grew just inside
the field fence.
"I thought 'twas goin' to do well," she said complacently as
we went on again. "Last time I was up this way that tree was kind
of drooping and discouraged. Grown trees act that way sometimes,
same's folks; then they'll put right to it and strike their roots
off into new ground and start all over again with real good
courage. Ash-trees is very likely to have poor spells; they ain't
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine
for themselves; that he will put ON, or rather that he will not put OFF
the true character of a man, and generously enlarge his views beyond
the present day.
Volumes have been written on the subject of the struggle between
England and America. Men of all ranks have embarked in the controversy,
from different motives, and with various designs; but all have been
ineffectual, and the period of debate is closed. Arms, as the last
resource, decide this contest; the appeal was the choice of the king,
and the continent hath accepted the challenge.
It hath been reported of the late Mr. Pelham (who tho' an
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