| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: d'Allemand/), and expelled him from the territory of the free city.
Justice in Frankfort is no whit wiser nor more humane than elsewhere,
albeit the city is the seat of the German Diet. It is not often that a
magistrate traces back the stream of wrongdoing and misfortune to the
holder of the urn from which the first beginnings trickled forth. If
Brunner forgot his son, his son's friends speedily followed the old
innkeeper's example.
Ah! if the journalists, the dandies, and some few fair Parisians among
the audience wondered how that German with the tragical countenance
had cropped up on a first night to occupy a side box all to himself
when fashionable Paris filled the house,--if these could have seen the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: are those among them who, like another section of the French
noblesse, are ready, more generously than wisely, to throw away
their own social and political advantages, and play (for it will
never be really more than playing) at democracy. Let them, too,
beware. The penknife and the axe should respect each other; for
they were wrought from the same steel: but the penknife will not be
wise in trying to fell trees. Let them accept their own position,
not in conceit and arrogance, but in fear and trembling; and see if
they cannot play the man therein, and save their own class; and with
it, much which it has needed many centuries to accumulate and to
organise, and without which no nation has yet existed for a single
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 144: 7 Stretch forth Thy hands from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of many waters, out of the hand of strangers;
Psalms 144: 8 Whose mouth speaketh falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of lying.
Psalms 144: 9 O God, I will sing a new song unto Thee, upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto Thee;
Psalms 144: 10 Who givest salvation unto kings, who rescuest David Thy servant from the hurtful sword.
Psalms 144: 11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of strangers, whose mouth speaketh falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of lying.
Psalms 144: 12 We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace;
Psalms 144: 13 Whose garners are full, affording all manner of store; whose sheep increase by thousands and ten thousands in our fields;
Psalms 144: 14 Whose oxen are well laden; with no breach, and no going forth, and no outcry in our broad places;
Psalms 144: 15 Happy is the people that is in such a case. Yea, happy is the people whose God is the LORD.
Psalms 145: 1 A Psalm of praise; of David. I will extol Thee, my God, O King; and I will bless Thy name for ever and ever.
Psalms 145: 2 Every day will I bless Thee; and I will praise Thy name for ever and ever.
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