Something to think about – The New Year
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.
— John Selden
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instil in us.
— Hal Borland
The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
— Hartley Coleridge
New Year’s Eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another 12 months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
— Edward Payson Powell
Compiled by O’Neil Grant
