"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."

Benjamin Franklin
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"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

Hal Borland
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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."

Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.  Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential."

Ellen Goodman
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"There is no moment like the present.  The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards:  they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence."

Maria Edgeworth
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