| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: he said to me, and laughed.
"That seems all right," I said, and began very gingerly to raise
myself from my chair. I felt perfectly well, very light and
comfortable, and quite confident in my mind. I was going fast all
over. My heart, for example, was beating a thousand times a second,
but that caused me no discomfort at all. I looked out of the window.
An immovable cyclist, head down and with a frozen puff of dust
behind his driving-wheel, scorched to overtake a galloping char-a-banc
that did not stir. I gaped in amazement at this incredible spectacle.
"Gibberne," I cried, "how long will this confounded stuff last?"
"Heaven knows!" he answered. "Last time I took it I went to bed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: honoured me with of dedicating one of my Novels to you. That it
is unfinished, I greive; yet fear that from me, it will always
remain so; that as far as it is carried, it should be so trifling
and so unworthy of you, is another concern to your obliged humble
Servant
The Author
Messrs Demand and Co--please to pay Jane Austen Spinster the sum
of one hundred guineas on account of your Humble Servant.
H. T. Austen
L105. 0. 0.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: to him, and are compelled to be subservient to his salvation.
Thus Paul says, "All things work together for good to them who
are the called" (Rom. viii. 28), and also, "Whether life, or
death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours; and
ye are Christ's" (1 Cor. iii. 22, 23).
Not that in the sense of corporeal power any one among Christians
has been appointed to possess and rule all things, according to
the mad and senseless idea of certain ecclesiastics. That is the
office of kings, princes, and men upon earth. In the experience
of life we see that we are subjected to all things, and suffer
many things, even death. Yea, the more of a Christian any man is,
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