| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States;
for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners;
refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither,
and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent
to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure
of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: seemed a small affair to him.
All that day he rode, and his mind was quiet, and the desire of the
chase allayed. "How if this poor pebble be the touchstone, after
all?" said he: and he got down from his horse, and emptied forth
his wallet by the side of the way. Now, in the light of each
other, all the touchstones lost their hue and fire, and withered
like stars at morning; but in the light of the pebble, their beauty
remained, only the pebble was the most bright. And the elder son
smote upon his brow. "How if this be the truth?" he cried, "that
all are a little true?" And he took the pebble, and turned its
light upon the heavens, and they deepened about him like the pit;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: range. Would our modern spectators, just come down by rail for a
few hours, to see the cavalry embark, and return tomorrow in time
for dinner, have looked down upon that petty port, and petty fleet,
with a contemptuous smile, and begun some flippant speech about the
progress of intellect, and the triumphs of science, and our
benighted ancestors? They would have done so, doubt it not, if
they belonged to the many who gaze on those very triumphs as on a
raree-show to feed their silly wonder, or use and enjoy them
without thankfulness or understanding, as the ox eats the clover
thrust into his rack, without knowing or caring how it grew. But
if any of them were of the class by whom those very triumphs have
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