| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: vision nor harden the heart, but rather produces courage in the
truth and sympathy for all manner of misery.
Luther's contemporaries at once recognized the great importance
of the Treatise, for within the period of seven months it passed
through eight editions; these were followed by six more editions
between the years of 1521 and 1525; in 1521 it was translated
into Latin, and in this form passed through three editions up to
the year 1525; and all this in spite of the fact that in those
years the so-called three great Reformation writings of 1520 were
casting all else into the shadow. Melanchthon, in a
contemporaneous letter to John Hess, called it Luther's best
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: Charlotte thought her very strange-looking and singularly dressed;
she could not have said whether it was well or ill.
She was glad, at any rate, that they had put on their silk gowns--
especially Gertrude. "My cousins are very pretty,"
said the Baroness, turning her eyes from one to the other.
"Your daughters are very handsome, sir."
Charlotte blushed quickly; she had never yet heard her
personal appearance alluded to in a loud, expressive voice.
Gertrude looked away--not at Felix; she was extremely pleased.
It was not the compliment that pleased her; she did not believe it;
she thought herself very plain. She could hardly have told
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: such bestial cruelty, combined with such utter cowardice.
Varna also stood looking down at the unconscious warder. Then he
glanced up with a cunning smile at the other two men who stood
there. The doctor, pale and trembling with horror, covered his
face with his hands. Muller turned to the door to call in the
attendants waiting outside. During the moment's pause that ensued
the madman bent over his worktable, seized a knife that lay there
and dropped on one knee beside the prostrate form. His hand was
raised to strike when a calm voice said: "Fie! Cardillac, for
shame! Do not belittle yourself. This man here is not worthy of
your knife, the hangman will look after him."
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