| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: 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,
Anno. Domini, 1620.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: promised so much, began to overpower the terrors of his presence
from whom she was to request it. At length, as she still
received no answer, she repeatedly called upon the Dwarf by his
assumed name, and requested him to answer and open to her.
"What miserable being is reduced," said the appalling voice of
the Solitary, "to seek refuge here? Go hence; when the heath-
fowl need shelter, they seek it not in the nest of the night-
raven."
"I come to you, father," said Isabella, "in my hour of adversity,
even as you yourself commanded, when you promised your heart and
your door should be open to my distress; but I fear--"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: originates anything. All his thoughts, all his impulses, come
FROM THE OUTSIDE.
Y.M. It's an exasperating subject. The FIRST man had
original thoughts, anyway; there was nobody to draw from.
O.M. It is a mistake. Adam's thoughts came to him from the
outside. YOU have a fear of death. You did not invent that--you
got it from outside, from talking and teaching. Adam had no fear
of death--none in the world.
Y.M. Yes, he had.
O.M. When he was created?
Y.M. No.
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