| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Deuteronomy 19: 16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him;
Deuteronomy 19: 17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days.
Deuteronomy 19: 18 And the judges shall inquire diligently; and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
Deuteronomy 19: 19 then shall ye do unto him, as he had purposed to do unto his brother; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 19: 20 And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 19: 21 And thine eye shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy 20: 1 When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, thou shalt not be afraid of them; for the LORD thy God is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 20: 2 And it shall be, when ye draw nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
Deuteronomy 20: 3 and shall say unto them: 'Hear, O Israel, ye draw nigh this day unto battle against your enemies; let not your heart faint; fear not, nor be alarmed, neither be ye affrighted at them;
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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: to the quay, and there some merciless agent would refuse
her a passage! At any cost, he must see her beforehand,
and enable her to avoid such a repulse.
But all his endeavors were in vain, and he at length al-
most despaired of finding her again. It was eleven o'clock,
and Michael thought of presenting his podorojna at the
office of the head of police. The proclamation evidently
did not concern him, since the emergency had been fore-
seen for him, but he wished to make sure that nothing would
hinder his departure from the town.
Michael then returned to the other side of the Volga, to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac: drawing-room. To them, as to all curious enquirers, the servants
said that their mistress was not at home; the Duchess had made no
exceptions to her orders. But these four personages shone
conspicuous in that lofty sphere, of which the revolutions and
hereditary pretensions are solemnly recorded year by year in the
Almanach de Gotha, wherefore without some slight sketch of each
of them this picture of society were incomplete.
The Princesse de Blamont-Chauvry, in the feminine world, was a
most poetic wreck of the reign of Louis Quinze. In her beautiful
prime, so it was said, she had done her part to win for that
monarch his appellation of le Bien-aime. Of her past charms of
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