This bright new year is given me

Let each new year find you a better person.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

A new year can begin only because the old year ends.

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

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