| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: among them.
But because among us there is such a shameful mess and the very dregs
of all vice and lewdness, this commandment is directed also against all
manner of unchastity, whatever it may be called; and not only is the
external act forbidden, but also every kind of cause, incitement, and
means, so that the heart, the lips, and the whole body may be chaste
and afford no opportunity, help, or persuasion to unchastity. And not
only this, but that we also make resistance, afford protection and
rescue wherever there is danger and need; and again, that we give help
and counsel, so as to maintain our neighbor's honor. For whenever you
omit this when you could make resistance, or connive at it as if it did
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: We used to talk sonnets together, and Verlaine. Just
then I was trying to run a pipe from the Pierian spring."
"You were on the floor with her," said Octavia, unde-
flected, "five times at the Hammersmiths'."
"Hammersmiths' what? " questioned Teddy, vacuously.
"Ball -- ball," said Octavia, viciously. "What were
we talking of?"
"Eyes, I thought," said Teddy, after some reflection;
"and elbows."
"Those Hammersmiths," went on Octavia, in her
sweetest society prattle, after subduing an intense desire
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: just not less than three fifths of the Congress to be called a majority--
He that will promote discord, under a government so equally formed as this,
would have joined Lucifer in his revolt.
But as there is a peculiar delicacy, from whom, or in what manner,
this business must first arise, and as it seems most agreeable
and consistent, that it should come from some intermediate body
between the governed and the governors, that is, between the Congress
and the people. let a CONTINENTAL CONFERENCE be held, in the following manner,
and for the following purpose.
A committee of twenty-six members of Congress, viz. two for each colony.
Two Members from each House of Assembly, or Provincial Convention;
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