| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: last to the pinch of some humiliation. I liked well enough
to be a squatter when there was none but Hanson by; before
Ronalds, I will own, I somewhat quailed. I hastened to do
him fealty, said I gathered he was the Squattee, and
apologized. He threatened me with ejection, in a manner
grimly pleasant - more pleasant to him, I fancy, than to me;
and then he passed off into praises of the former state of
Silverado. "It was the busiest little mining town you ever
saw:" a population of between a thousand and fifteen hundred
souls, the engine in full blast, the mill newly erected;
nothing going but champagne, and hope the order of the day.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: performance of the duties of his office, to which he had been
regularly and divinely called, and without any urging on his
part, he attained to this position by inward necessity. In 1515
he received his appointment as the standing substitute for the
sickly city pastor, Simon Heinse, from the city council of
Wittenberg. Before this time he was obliged to preach only
occasionally in the convent, apart from his activity as teacher
in the University and convent. Through this appointment he was
in duty bound, by divine and human right, to lead and direct the
congregation at Wittenberg on the true way to life, and it would
have been a denial of the knowledge of salvation which God had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: suspicious features in Mrs. Charmond's existence at this season
were two: the first, that she lived with no companion or relative
about her, which, considering her age and attractions, was
somewhat unusual conduct for a young widow in a lonely country-
house; the other, that she did not, as in previous years, start
from Hintock to winter abroad. In Fitzpiers, the only change from
his last autnmn's habits lay in his abandonment of night study--
his lamp never shone from his new dwelling as from his old.
If the suspected ones met, it was by such adroit contrivances that
even Melbury's vigilance could not encounter them together. A
simple call at her house by the doctor had nothing irregular about
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