| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: which he knows is not to be done; damns himself to do, and dares
better be damned than to do't.
SECOND LORD.
You do not know him, my lord, as we do: certain it is that he
will steal himself into a man's favour, and for a week escape a
great deal of discoveries; but when you find him out, you have
him ever after.
BERTRAM.
Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of this, that so
seriously he does address himself unto?
FIRST LORD.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: "Oh, your daughter! Well, that's pat, too. What about the lad,
Valdez?"
"Are you his representative, senor?"
"Oh, he can talk for himself. " O'Halloran grinned. "He's doing
it right now, by the same token. Shall we interrupt a tete-a-tete
and go pay our compliments to Miss Carmencita? You will want to
find out whether she goes with you or stays here."
"Assuredly. Anything to escape this cave."
Miss Carmencita was at that moment reiterating her everlasting
determination to go wherever her father went. "If you think, sir,
that your faithlessness to him is a recommendation of your
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: a proper authority for so doing, put yourselves in the place of the whole body
of the Quakers, so, the writer of this, in order to be on an equal rank
with yourselves, is under the necessity, of putting himself in the place
of all those, who, approve the very writings and principles, against which,
your testimony is directed: And he hath chosen this singular situation,
in order, that you might discover in him that presumption of character
which you cannot see in yourselves. For neither he nor you can have any
claim or title to POLITICAL REPRESENTATION.
When men have departed from the right way, it is no wonder that they
stumble and fall. And it is evident from the manner in which ye have
managed your testimony, that politics, (as a religious body of men)
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