| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance
of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof do enact,
constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances,
Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time,
as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the
Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise
all due Submission and Obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names
at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our
Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland,
the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: There's something or other every day. There's not much dancing;
but I must say I never thought dancing was everything.
I was always fond of conversation. I guess I shall
have plenty at Mrs. Walker's, her rooms are so small."
When they had passed the gate of the Pincian Gardens,
Miss Miller began to wonder where Mr. Giovanelli might be.
"We had better go straight to that place in front," she said,
"where you look at the view."
"I certainly shall not help you to find him," Winterbourne declared.
"Then I shall find him without you," cried Miss Daisy.
"You certainly won't leave me!" cried Winterbourne.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: with a more deliberate gravity of manner, the sign of greater
wisdom and riper experience, but also of rheumatism, I fear.
From the morning bath to the evening ceremonies of the cot, you
attend the little two-legged creature of your adoption, being
yourself treated in the exercise of your duties with every
possible regard, with infinite consideration, by every person in
the house--even as I myself am treated; only you deserve it more.
The general's daughter would tell you that it must be "perfectly
delightful."
Aha! old dog. She never heard you yelp with acute pain (it's
that poor left ear) the while, with incredible self-command, you
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