I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will
not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison
Quotes , Source: Salutatory of the Liberator (vol. I, no. 1, Jan. 1, 1831)
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I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
William Lloyd Garrison
Quotes , Source: Salutatory of the Liberator (vol. I, no. 1, Jan. 1, 1831)
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Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
Eric Zorn
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The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence
Marie Edgeworth
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Videlicit,
That each man swore to do his best
To damn and perjure all the rest.
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 630)
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Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.
Thomas Gray
Quotes , Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 22)
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In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and
full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment
of execution.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quotes , Source: Twice-Told Tales--Fancy's Show Box
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse?
Then go on;
Back-turning slackens resolution.
Robert Herrick
Quotes , Source: Regression Spoils Resolution
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For when two
Join in the same adventure, one perceives
Before the other how they ought to act;
While one alone, however prompt, resolves
More tardily and with a weaker will.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Iliad (bk. X, l. 257), (Bryant's translation)
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In life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained: knowst thou when Fate
Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee,
"I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: Epigram
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Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire.
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes,
That borrow their behaviors from the great,
Grow great by your example and put on
The dauntless spirit of resolution.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life and Death of King John (Bastard at V, i)
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And hearts resolved and hands prepared
The blessings they enjoy to guard.
Tobias George Smollett
Quotes , Source: Humphry Clinker--Ode to Leven Water
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The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde
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