| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: to justify the gardener's charming hobby.
At the end of the greenhouse the judge had set up a grandstand, an
amphitheatre of benches to hold some five or six thousand pelargoniums
in pots--a splendid and famous show. People came to see his geraniums
in flower, not only from the neighborhood, but even from the
departments round about. The Empress Marie Louise, passing through the
town, had honored the curiously kept greenhouse with a visit; so much
was she impressed with the sight, that she spoke of it to Napoleon,
and the old judge received the Cross of the Legion of Honor. But as
the learned gardener never mingled in society at all, and went nowhere
except to the Blandureaus, he had no suspicion of the President's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: captor the scowl upon the features of the latter boded
ill for any hope which Werper might entertain, still he
fortified himself by recalling the common weakness of
mankind, which permits the most inflexible of natures
to bend to the consuming desire for wealth.
Abdul Mourak eyed him, frowningly. "What do you want
now?" he asked.
"My liberty," replied Werper.
The Abyssinian sneered. "And you disturbed me thus to
tell me what any fool might know," he said.
"I can pay for it," said Werper.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: ROM 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather,
that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
maketh intercession for us.
ROM 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword?
ROM 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long;
we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
ROM 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him that loved us.
ROM 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
King James Bible |
