| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because
of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe
to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose
that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the
providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued
through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he
gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due
to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any
departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a
living God always ascribe to him? Fondly do we hope--fervently
do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: then, struck by the drollery of the incident, gave way to
peals of laughter. I was still laughing when my stepmother
reappeared, and the maid, who doubtless considered me insane,
ran off to join her; nor had I yet recovered my gravity when
I presented myself before the lawyer to solicit a fresh
advance. His answer made me serious enough, for it was a
flat refusal; and it was not until I had besought him even
with tears, that he consented to lend me ten pounds from his
own pocket. 'I am a poor man,' said he, 'and you must look
for nothing farther at my hands.'
The landlady met me at the door. 'Here, madam,' said she,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: back for the pain he had given her. "I don't expect you to
understand me, my feelings, as any one who loved me might, but
simple delicacy I did expect," she said.
And he had actually flushed with vexation, and had said something
unpleasant. She could not recall her answer, but at that point,
with an unmistakable desire to wound her too, he had said:
"I feel no interest in your infatuation over this girl, that's
true, because I see it's unnatural."
The cruelty with which he shattered the world she had built up
for herself so laboriously to enable her to endure her hard life,
the injustice with which he had accused her of affectation, of
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