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 "“Another
fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!”"
William Arthur Ward
"New Year's
Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does
not encourage them to take up more of my time."
James Agate
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"An
optimist stays up until
midnight to see the new year in. A
pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
Bill Vaughn
"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are
going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called
Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
"For
last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's
words await another voice."
T.S. Eliot
"The
object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It
is that we should have a new soul."
G. K. Chesterton
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 "The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to
be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when
you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Ring
out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the
snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in
the true."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"New
Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular
annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell
with them as usual."
Mark Twain
"New
Year's Day is every man's birthday."
Charles Lamb
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