| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source
of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world; now the
cloud had passed from her mien, leaving space for the dawn of
hope and interest, and those feelings rose like a clear morning,
animating what had been depressed, tinting what had been pale.
Her eyes, whose colour I had not at first known, so dim were they
with repressed tears, so shadowed with ceaseless dejection, now,
lit by a ray of the sunshine that cheered her heart, revealed
irids of bright hazel--irids large and full, screened with long
lashes; and pupils instinct with fire. That look of wan
emaciation which anxiety or low spirits often communicates to a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: ***
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The United States Bill of Rights.
The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
Passed by Congress September 25, 1789
Ratified December 15, 1791
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: bought too dearly. We need not triumphs out of this war but the
peace of the world.
This war is altogether unlike any previous war, and its ending,
like its development, will follow a course of its own. For a
time people's minds ran into the old grooves, the Germans were
going /nach Paris/ and /nach London/; Lord Curzon
filled our minds with a pleasant image of the Bombay Lancers
riding down /Unter den Linden./ But the Versailles
precedent of a council of victors dictating terms to the
vanquished is not now so evidently in men's minds. The utmost
the Allies talk upon now is to say, "We must end the war on
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