| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: In reality he was of a disposition most peaceful and propitiating, a
friend of justice and fair dealing, strongly inclined to a domestic
life, and capable of extreme devotion. He had a vivid sense of
righteousness, it is true, and any violation of it was apt to heat
his indignation to the boiling-point. When this occurred he was
strong in the back, stiff in the neck, and fearless of consequences.
But he was always open to friendly overtures and ready to make peace
with honour.
Singularly responsive to every touch of kindness, desirous of
affection, secretly hungry for caresses, he had a heart framed for
love and tranquillity. But nature saw fit to put a black patch over
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: not having any energy left.
"Oh, I say!" said the little girl, looking at my face,
and making the sound known as a guffaw. The familiarity
of this little girl was wholly revolting.
We had got safely through the door, round the corner past
the radishes, and were in the shrubbery. I knew from experience
how easy it was to hide in the tangle of little paths, and stopped
a moment to look round and listen. The little girl opened her
mouth to speak. With great presence of mind I instantly put my
muff in front of it and held it there tight, while I listened.
Dead silence, except for the laboured breathing and struggles
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: great dangers; and they refrain from turning their activity in
that direction.
Thus the inhabitants of the South would not be able, like
their Northern countrymen, to initiate the slaves gradually into
a state of freedom by abolishing slavery; they have no means of
perceptibly diminishing the black population, and they would
remain unsupported to repress its excesses. So that in the
course of a few years, a great people of free negroes would exist
in the heart of a white nation of equal size.
The same abuses of power which still maintain slavery, would
then become the source of the most alarming perils which the
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