make up one's mind
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You may see a failure to make up one's mind between two clearly differentiated candidates as an act of ignorance or dishonesty.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To make up one's mind to be true to one's love—even if it be only the love of beauty—requires courage.
From As Seen By Me by Bell, Lilian
One has only to make up one's mind to it, and then—do it.
From Last Words by Crane, Stephen
Would it be well, and could one make up one's mind to confine, or drive them all away at once?
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
Now the more sense one has, the more difficult it is to make up one's mind in an affair of this kind.
From Old-Time Stories by Perrault, Charles