| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: And though generally in that part of Michigan the thaws begin by the
first or second week in March, this year zero weather continued even
to the eighth of April. When the drive started, far up toward
headwaters, the cut was banked for miles along the stream, forty
million feet of it to the last timber.
The strain over, Orde slept the clock around and awoke to the
further but familiar task of driving the river. He was very tired;
but his spirit was at peace. As always after the event, he looked
back on his anxieties with a faint amusement over their futility.
>From Taylor he had several communications. The lawyer confessed
himself baffled as to the purpose and basis of the Land Office
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: all shall come abjectly to Him. And thou shalt see the mountains,
which thou dost deem solid, pass away like the passing of the
clouds;-the work of God who orders all things; verily, He is well
aware of what ye do!
He who brings a good deed shall have better than it; and from the
alarm of that day they shall be safe: but those who bring an evil deed
shall be thrown down upon their faces in the fire. Shall ye be
rewarded save for what ye have done?
I am bidden to serve the Lord of this country who has made it
sacred, and whose are all things; and I am bidden to be of those who
are resigned, and to recite the Koran; A an; and he who is guided he
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: that was allotted him, and all the rest of the senators
likewise departed every one to his respective government.
Thus all Italy in a manner being up in arms, no one could say
what was best to be done. For those that were without, came
from all parts flocking into the city; and they who were
within, seeing the confusion and disorder so great there, all
good things impotent, and disobedience and insubordination
grown too strong to be controlled by the magistrates, were
quitting it as fast as the others came in. Nay, it was so far
from being possible to allay their fears, that they would not
suffer Pompey to follow out his own judgment, but every man
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