| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: But whoso does that maliciously and unjustly, we will broil him with
fire; for that is easy with God.
If ye avoid great sins from which ye are forbidden, we will cover
your offences and make you enter with a noble entrance.
And do not covet that by which God has preferred one of you over
another. The men shall have a portion of what they earn, and the women
a portion of what they earn; ask God for His grace, verily, God
knows all.
To every one have we appointed kinsfolk as heirs of what parents and
relatives and those with whom ye have joined right hands leave; so
give them their portion, for, verily, God is over all a witness.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: just) of my prolonged misconduct?'
'O, pardon me!' cried the Colonel. 'You have never been expelled
from the divinity hall; you have never been broke. I was: broke for
a neglect of military duty. To tell you the open truth, your
Highness, I was the worse of drink; it's a thing I never do now,' he
added, taking out his glass. 'But a man, you see, who has really
tasted the defects of his own character, as I have, and has come to
regard himself as a kind of blind teetotum knocking about life,
begins to learn a very different view about forgiveness. I will
talk of not forgiving others, sir, when I have made out to forgive
myself, and not before; and the date is like to be a long one. My
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: head sadly, she slipped from the room.
But Alfred could not immediately dismiss from his mind the
picture of Maggie's inhuman parent.
"Just fancy," he said, turning his head to one side meditatively,
"fancy any man not liking to be the father of twins," and with
that he again bent over the cradle and surveyed its contents.
"Think, Jimmy," he said, when he had managed to get the three
youngsters in his arms, "just think of the way THAT father feels,
and then think of the way _I_ feel."
"And then think of the way _I_ feel," grumbled Jimmy.
"You!" exclaimed Alfred; "what have you to feel about?"
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