Varie aduritur et miscetur ipsa melancholia, unde variae amentium species.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

So that the curious man is more use to his enemies than to himself, for he finds fault with and exposes their shortcomings, and shows them what they ought to avoid and correct, while he neglects most of his affairs at home, owing to his excitement about things abroad.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Yours faithfully, “ ‘JEPHRO RUCASTLE.’ “That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and my mind is made up that I will accept it.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

General Grant assured me at the time that he not only admired and respected General Thomas, but actually loved him as a man, and he authorized me in making up commands for the general officers to do anything and everything to favor him, only he could not recede from his former action in respect to Generals Sheridan and Meade.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Make this dash,—'tis an Aposiopesis,—Take the dash away, and write Backside,—'tis Bawdy.—Scratch Backside out, and put Cover'd way in, 'tis a Metaphor;—and, I dare say, as fortification ran so much in my uncle Toby's head, that if he had been left to have added one word to the sentence,—that word was it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

My mind is made up.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

But some way or other the matter is made up; but he was banished the Court, and the Duke for many days did not speak to the Duchesse at all.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The white despair of Walter's face, when my cruel words struck him to the heart in the summer-house at Limmeridge, rose before me in mute, unendurable reproach.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

“I’ve been thinking about all this for some time, and my mind is made up.
— from From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables

"Thank God!" said Henry, in a low voice, and then added, "well, then, dearest Maria, my mind is made up.
— from The Forgery; or, Best Intentions. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

‘My mind is made up,’ he said.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

May I make use of your writing table?
— from The Poor Plutocrats by Mór Jókai

They have contrived to connect the fabulous part of the story of Jesus Christ with the fable originating from Mount Etna; and, in order to make all the parts of the story tie together, they have taken to their aid the traditions of the Jews; for the Christian mythology is made up partly from the ancient mythology, and partly from the Jewish traditions.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

Why, the history [Pg xxxv] of every great religious revolution, such as the spread of Methodism, is made up of nothing else; the instances occurring in such number and variety, as to transform the character of whole districts and vast populations, and to put all scepticism at utter defiance.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

At any rate, my mind is made up."
— from Bob Burton; or, The Young Ranchman of the Missouri by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

There are four dead mean in military uniforms lying on the road near a couple of sawhorses."
— from Occasion for Disaster by Randall Garrett

“Well,” he replied, “I am going to visit my mother and I wish to give her a pleasurable surprise, as she has never seen me in military uniform.”
— from My Three Years in a German Prison by Henri Severin Beland