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Videlicit,
That each man swore to do his best
To damn and perjure all the rest.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 630)
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I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will
not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
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.
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
Source: Salutatory of the Liberator (vol. I, no. 1, Jan. 1, 1831)
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Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.
Author: Thomas Gray
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.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source: Twice-Told Tales--Fancy's Show Box
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse?
Then go on;
Back-turning slackens resolution.
Author: Robert Herrick
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.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. X, l. 257), (Bryant's translation)
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Resolve, and thou art free.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Masque of Pandora (pt. VI, In the Garden)
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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?"
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Epigram
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Never tell your resolution beforehand.
Author: John Selden
Source: Table Talk--Wisdom
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: Tobias George Smollett
Source: Humphry Clinker--Ode to Leven Water
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Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Author: Philip Sidney
Source: None
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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
Author: Marcel Proust
Source: None
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Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: None
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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.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: None
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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Resolve and thou art free.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: None
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