| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: functions as the famous waterfall scene at the 'Princess's,'
which I found doing duty on one evening as a gorge in Peru, a
haunt of German robbers, and a peaceful vale in the Scottish
borders. There is a sad absence of striking argument or real
lively discussion. Indeed, you feel a growing contempt for
your fellow-members; and it is not until you rise yourself to
hawk and hesitate and sit shamefully down again, amid
eleemosynary applause, that you begin to find your level and
value others rightly. Even then, even when failure has
damped your critical ardour, you will see many things to be
laughed at in the deportment of your rivals.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of
the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country,
a Voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne Parts
of Virginia; doe, by these Presents, solemnly and mutually
in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and
combine ourselves together into a civill Body Politick,
for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance
of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof do enact,
constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances,
Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "Ah," said Melanie, sadly, "what will the South be like without all
our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?
We could use their courage and their energy and their brains.
Scarlett, all of us with little boys must raise them to take the
places of the men who are gone, to be brave men like them."
"There will never again be men like them," said Carreen softly.
"No one can take their places."
They drove home the rest of the way in silence,
One day not long after this, Cathleen Calvert rode up to Tara at
sunset. Her sidesaddle was strapped on as sorry a mule as Scarlett
had ever seen, a flop-eared lame brute, and Cathleen was almost as
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