| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: The king brought a great many other fine pieces to England, and
with them the love of fine paintings so universally spread itself
among the nobility and persons of figure all over the kingdom that
it is incredible what collections have been made by English
gentlemen since that time, and how all Europe has been rummaged, as
we may say, for pictures to bring over hither, where for twenty
years they yielded the purchasers, such as collected them for sale,
immense profit. But the rates are abated since that, and we begin
to be glutted with the copies and frauds of the Dutch and Flemish
painters who have imposed grossly upon us. But to return to the
palace of Hampton Court. Queen Mary lived not to see it completely
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: shall reach him, have weak seed, and there fall on it a storm wind
with fire therein, and it gets burnt?
Thus does God manifest to you His signs, mayhap ye will reflect.
O ye who believe! expend in alms of the good things that ye have
earned, and of what we have brought forth for you out of the earth,
and do not take the vile thereof to spend in alms,- what you would not
take yourselves save by connivance at it; but know that God is rich
and to be praised.
The devil promises you poverty and bids you sin, but God promises
you pardon from Him and grace, for God both embraces and knows. He
bringeth wisdom unto whom He will, and he who is brought wisdom is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: proof at all for this internal heat; my opinion is that there is no
such thing, it cannot be; besides we shall see for ourselves, and,
like Arne Saknussemm, we shall know exactly what to hold as truth
concerning this grand question."
"Very well, we shall see," I replied, feeling myself carried off by
his contagious enthusiasm. "Yes, we shall see; that is, if it is
possible to see anything there."
"And why not? May we not depend upon electric phenomena to give us
light? May we not even expect light from the atmosphere, the pressure
of which may render it luminous as we approach the centre?"
"Yes, yes," said I; "that is possible, too."
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