RESOLUTION.
Be stirring as the time: be fire with fire:
Threaten the threatener 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.
King John, Act v. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
My resolution 's placed, and I have nothing
Of woman in me: now from head to foot
I am marble—constant.
Antony and Cleopatra, Act v. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
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.
Iliad, Bk. X. HOMER. Trans. of BRYANT.
I pull in resolution, and begin
To doubt the equivocation of the fiend
That lies like truth: "Fear not, till Birnam wood
Do come to Dunsinane."
Macbeth, Act v. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE.
In life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when Fate
Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee,
"I find thee worthy; do this deed for me"?
Epigram. J.R. LOWELL.