| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: brave jewel.
"And so, to make few words of a sad matter, at last there were none
left but Mr. Oxenham and the lady and the little maid, together
with me and William Penberthy of Marazion, my good comrade. And
Mr. Oxenham always led the lady, and Penberthy and I carried the
little maid. And for food we had fruits, such as we could find,
and water we got from the leaves of certain lilies which grew on
the bark of trees, which I found by seeing the monkeys drink at
them; and the little maid called them monkey-cups, and asked for
them continually, making me climb for them. And so we wandered on,
and upward into very high mountains, always fearing lest the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: to bed; thanks to which circumstance and to their having,
during the previous hours, in their commodious cabin,
slept the sleep of youth and health, they began to feel,
toward eleven o'clock, very alert and inquisitive.
They looked out of their windows across a row of small
green fields, bordered with low stone walls of rude construction,
and saw a deep blue ocean lying beneath a deep blue sky,
and flecked now and then with scintillating patches of foam.
A strong, fresh breeze came in through the curtainless casements
and prompted our young men to observe, generally, that it didn't
seem half a bad climate. They made other observations after they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau: using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset,
the people would not have consented to this measure.
This American government--what is it but a tradition,
though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself
unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its
integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single
living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is
a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is
not the less necessary for this; for the people must have
some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to
satisfy that idea of government which they have.
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