| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: and their peace and personal security are to be endangered.
There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension.
Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while
existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in
nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you.
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with
the institution of slavery where it exists. I believe I have
no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge
that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: keep a stout heart and mean to succeed. Frewen the observer, in
describing the paces of two horses, says, "Polly takes twenty-seven
steps to get round the school. I couldn't count Sophy, but she
takes more than a hundred."'
'FEB. 18TH, 1877. - We all feel very lonely without you. Frewen
had to come up and sit in my room for company last night and I
actually kissed him, a thing that has not occurred for years.
Jack, poor fellow, bears it as well as he can, and has taken the
opportunity of having a fester on his foot, so he is lame and has
it bathed, and this occupies his thoughts a good deal.'
'FEB. 19TH. - As to Mill, Austin has not got the list yet. I think
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: "Jacques lighted me to the door," he said, with a half-sad smile which
dispelled any suspicion of jest in those words, while the tone in
which they were spoken went to the heart. Mme. de Beauseant was
disarmed.
"Very well, take a seat," she said.
Gaston eagerly took possession of a chair. His eyes were shining with
happiness; the Vicomtesse, unable to endure the brilliant light in
them, looked down at the book. She was enjoying a delicious, ever new
sensation; the sense of a man's delight in her presence is an
unfailing feminine instinct. And then, besides, he had divined her,
and a woman is so grateful to the man who has mastered the apparently
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