| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked
by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler
of a free People.
Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren.
We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their
legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and
settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice
and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our
common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably
interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: been discovered here," he said; "but since you have lit upon it, I
will not deny it."
Now how it came to pass that I was not astonished nor dismayed at
this, I cannot explain. But so it was; and the only feeling of
which I was conscious was a strong desire to detain this visitor as
long as possible, and have some talk with him. So I grasped at the
only expedient that flashed into my mind.
"Well, then, sir," I said, "you are most heartily welcome, and I
trust you will not despise the only hospitality I have to offer. If
you will sit down here among these birch trees in Contentment
Corner, I will give you half of a fisherman's luncheon, and will
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: possibilities through which it could range, our young lady had ever
since had in her mind a dozen conflicting theories about Everard's
type; as to which, the instant they came into the place, she felt
the point settled with a thump that seemed somehow addressed
straight to her heart. That organ literally beat faster at the
approach of the gentleman who was this time with Cissy, and who, as
seen from within the cage, became on the spot the happiest of the
happy circumstances with which her mind had invested the friend of
Fritz and Gussy. He was a very happy circumstance indeed as, with
his cigarette in his lips and his broken familiar talk caught by
his companion, he put down the half-dozen telegrams it would take
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