| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
ISA 8:13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear,
and let him be your dread.
ISA 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling
and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and
for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
ISA 8:15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken,
and be snared, and be taken.
ISA 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
ISA 8:17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the
house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: asked Gazonal.
"Look!" said his cousin, pointing to an elegant caleche which was
turning at that moment from the boulevard into the rue Grange-
Bateliere, "there's one of the leading danseuses whose name on the
posters attracts all Paris. That woman earns sixty thousand francs a
year and lives like a princess; the price of your manufactory all told
wouldn't suffice to buy you the privilege of bidding her good-morning
a dozen times."
"Do you see," said Bixiou, "that young man who is sitting on the front
seat of her carriage? Well, he's a viscount who bears a fine old name;
he's her first gentleman of the bed-chamber; does all her business
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: and rigging. Mr. Hunt lost no time in hurrying the residue of the
cargo on board of her; then, bidding adieu to his seal-fishing
friends, and his whalebone habitation, he put forth once more to
sea.
He was now for making the best of his way to Astoria, and
fortunate would it have been for the interests of that place, and
the interests of Mr. Astor, had he done so; but, unluckily, a
perplexing question rose in his mind. The sails and rigging of
the Beaver had been much rent and shattered in the late storm;
would she be able to stand the hard gales to be expected in
making Columbia River at this season? Was it prudent, also, at
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