| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: to his successor.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice
of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
In our present differences is either party without faith of being
in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal
truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours
of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail,
by the judgment of this great tribunal, the American people.
By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people
have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief;
and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: to see or to speak to, in whom she could believe no good
quality to exist, and whose power, even of being agreeable,
she had barely acknowledged. He was now the Mr. Crawford
who was addressing herself with ardent, disinterested love;
whose feelings were apparently become all that was
honourable and upright, whose views of happiness were all
fixed on a marriage of attachment; who was pouring out
his sense of her merits, describing and describing again
his affection, proving as far as words could prove it,
and in the language, tone, and spirit of a man of talent too,
that he sought her for her gentleness and her goodness;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: the rich! There are new ones every day, and they seem to get
richer and richer. Oh, they do come up!" she cried, imitating for
her private recreation--she was sure it wouldn't reach Mr. Mudge--
the low intonation of the counter-clerk.
"And where do they come from?" her companion candidly enquired.
She had to think a moment; then she found something. "From the
'spring meetings.' They bet tremendously."
"Well, they bet enough at Chalk Farm, if that's all."
"It ISN'T all. It isn't a millionth part!" she replied with some
sharpness. "It's immense fun"--she HAD to tantalise him. Then as
she had heard Mrs. Jordan say, and as the ladies at Cocker's even
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