| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: not astonished. God was great: but that they had discovered long
before they came into the tropics. Noble old child-hearted heroes,
with just romance and superstition enough about them to keep them
from that prurient hysterical wonder and enthusiasm, which is
simply, one often fears, a product of our scepticism! We do not
trust enough in God, we do not really believe His power enough, to
be ready, as they were, as every one ought to be on a God-made
earth, for anything and everything being possible; and then, when a
wonder is discovered, we go into ecstasies and shrieks over it, and
take to ourselves credit for being susceptible of so lofty a
feeling, true index, forsooth, of a refined and cultivated mind.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: the end of life.
As much as she hated Gilbert, however, did she love Diana, with
all the love of her passionate little heart, equally intense in
its likes and dislikes. One evening Marilla, coming in from the
orchard with a basket of apples, found Anne sitting along by the
east window in the twilight, crying bitterly.
"Whatever's the matter now, Anne?" she asked.
"It's about Diana," sobbed Anne luxuriously. "I love Diana so,
Marilla. I cannot ever live without her. But I know very well
when we grow up that Diana will get married and go away and leave
me. And oh, what shall I do? I hate her husband--I just hate
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry: find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir,
deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert
the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated;
we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have
implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and
Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced
additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded;
and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne!
In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and
reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free--
if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which
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