| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin: sum of one thousand pounds, leaving the remainder to the next account.
I consider this payment as good luck, having never been able
to obtain that remainder, of which more hereafter.
This general was, I think, a brave man, and might probably have
made a figure as a good officer in some European war. But he had
too much self-confidence, too high an opinion of the validity of
regular troops, and too mean a one of both Americans and Indians.
George Croghan, our Indian interpreter, join'd him on his march
with one hundred of those people, who might have been of great use
to his army as guides, scouts, etc., if he had treated them kindly;
but he slighted and neglected them, and they gradually left him.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: surrounded by weeping children. A woman still young,
evidently his daughter and the mother of the poor children,
kneeling on the ground, was gazing on the scene of desola-
tion. She had at her breast a baby but a few months old;
shortly she would have not even that nourishment to give
it. Ruin and desolation were all around!
Michael approached the old man.
"Will you answer me a few questions?" he asked.
"Speak," replied the old man.
"Have the Tartars passed this way?"
"Yes, for my house is in flames."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: Moses and Aaron, holy men, honoured with the gift of prophecy; by
whom also he punished the Egyptians in fashion worthy of their
wickedness, and led the Israelites (for thus the people descended
from Abraham were called) through the Red Sea upon dry land, the
waters dividing and making a wall on the right hand and a wall on
the left. But when Pharaoh and the Egyptians pursued and went in
after them, the waters returned and utterly destroyed them. Then
with exceeding mighty miracles and divine manifestations by the
space of forty years he led the people in the wilderness, and fed
them with bread from heaven, and gave the Law divinely written on
tables of stone, which he delivered unto Moses on the mount, `a
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