| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: But there succeeded them successors who inherited the Book! They
take the goods of this lower world and say, 'It will be forgiven
us.' But if the like goods came to them they would take them too!
Was there not taken from them a covenant by the Book, that they should
not say against God aught but the truth? Yet they study therein! But
the abode of the future life is better for those who fear- do ye not
then understand? But those who hold fast by the Book and are steadfast
in prayer- verily, we will not waste the hire of those who do right.
And when we shook the mountain over them, as though it were a
shadow, and they thought it would fall upon them (saying), 'Take ye
what we have given you with firmness, and remember what is therein;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: Whereat she leaps that was but late forlorn.
As falcon to the lure, away she flies;
The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; 1028
And in her haste unfortunately spies
The foul boar's conquest on her fair delight;
Which seen, her eyes, as murder'd with the view,
Like stars asham'd of day, themselves withdrew:
Or, as the snail, whose tender horns being hit, 1033
Shrinks backwards in his shelly cave with pain,
And there, all smother'd up, in shade doth sit,
Long after fearing to creep forth again; 1036
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: policy: they will one day discover that they have hazarded their
own power, by making it so necessary; and that the more safe and
honest course would have been to teach their subjects the art of
providing for themselves. *a
[Footnote a: [As a matter of fact, more recent experience has
shown that place-hunting is quite as intense in the United States
as in any country in Europe. It is regarded by the Americans
themselves as one of the great evils of their social condition,
and it powerfully affects their political institutions. But the
American who seeks a place seeks not so much a means of
subsistence as the distinction which office and public employment
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