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Every man should be born again on the first day of January.
Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle
if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but
on the first of January let every man gird himself once more,
with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things
that were and are past.
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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.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
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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.
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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last
drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and
exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast
our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient
shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
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People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas
and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what
they eat between the New Year and Christmas.
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And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast,
And been bow'd to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it
go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank
where they have no account.
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Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
