| 1. | Sad resolution and secure let eac. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Endurance, resolution to the last. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | If not what resolution from despare. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 4. | Her resolution was formed as she read. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 5. | Prudent, least from his resolution rais'. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 6. | But the resolution was made only to be broken. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 7. | With a more than human resolution I lay still. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 8. | The screws of his resolution had been loosened. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 9. | The resolution taken, it remained to carry it out. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 10. | "Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 11. | But somehow it's hard to carry out your resolutions when irresistible temptations come. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 12. | 'But deeds must prove it also and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 13. | The dead leaves that were blown against the leaded panes seemed to him like his own wasted resolutions and wild regrets. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 14. | And everything that had been stirring Levin during that sleepless night, all the resolutions he had made, all vanished at once. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 15. | "When such resolutions are made, Albert, they should be promptly executed. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 16. | Serious she was, very serious in her thankfulness, and in her resolutions and yet there was no preventing a laugh, sometimes in the very midst of them. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 17. | In his _Journal_ he tells us how his vague resolutions were brought to a focu. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 18. | It gave him little surprise, however for he had been revolving in his mind a change of life, and thought and hoped he saw his new-born resolutions carried out in this. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |