| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: offense. For in this decree we must perpetually consider what
the aim of the Gospel is.
Scarcely any Canons are kept with exactness, and from day to
day many go out of use even among those who are the most
zealous advocates of traditions. Neither can due regard be
paid to consciences unless this mitigation be observed, that
we know that the Canons are kept without holding them to be
necessary, and that no harm is done consciences, even though
traditions go out of use.
But the bishops might easily retain the lawful obedience of
the people if they would not insist upon the observance of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: He could not direct me what to do, gaze up at him as I might.
Was it before this or after that I wandered about for an hour
in the small canals, to the continued stupefaction of my gondolier,
who had never seen me so restless and yet so void of a purpose and
could extract from me no order but "Go anywhere--everywhere--all over
the place"? He reminded me that I had not lunched and expressed
therefore respectfully the hope that I would dine earlier.
He had had long periods of leisure during the day, when I had left
the boat and rambled, so that I was not obliged to consider him,
and I told him that that day, for a change, I would touch
no meat. It was an effect of poor Miss Tita's proposal,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: "I confided my fears to Elmer, and was surprised to learn from
him that Newark is very near New York. We took a taxicab at
once, and were waiting at the freight depot in Newark when the
thing arrived. There I claimed it in the name of Miss Genevieve
Pringle.
"It became apparent to me that I must manage its final
disposition myself. Elmer hired for me the vehicle in which we
arrived here, and we started back to New York.
"But the driver, from the first, was suspicious of the box. His
suspicions were increased when, upon returning to my apartment
hotel, where I now decided to keep the box until I could think
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