| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Haeduis victis accidisse, propterea quod Ariovistus, rex Germanorum, in
eorum finibus consedisset tertiamque partem agri Sequani, qui esset
optimus totius Galliae, occupavisset et nunc de altera parte tertia
Sequanos decedere iuberet, propterea quod paucis mensibus ante Harudum
milia hominum XXIIII ad eum venissent, quibus locus ac sedes pararentur.
Futurum esse paucis annis uti omnes ex Galliae finibus pellerentur atque
omnes Germani Rhenum transirent; neque enim conferendum esse Gallicum cum
Germanorum agro neque hanc consuetudinem victus cum illa comparandam.
Ariovistum autem, ut semel Gallorum copias proelio vicerit, quod proelium
factum sit ad Magetobrigam, superbe et crudeliter imperare, obsides
nobilissimi cuiusque liberos poscere et in eos omnia exempla cruciatusque
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended
address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat
in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper.
Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations
have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great
contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies
of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress
of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known
to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory
and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction
in regard to it is ventured.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: Ye would tell the Royal Wretch his sins, and warn him of eternal ruin.
["Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is
to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled as well as to rule,
and set upon the throne; and being oppressed thou hast reason to know
how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man: If after all these warnings
and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart,
but forget him who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself
to fallow lust and vanity, surely great will be thy condemnation.--
Against which snare, as well as the temptation of those who may
or do feed thee, and prompt thee to evil, the most excellent and prevalent
remedy will be, to apply thyself to that light of Christ which shineth
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