New Year scraps, text messages and SMS

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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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. ~Charles Lamb
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. ~John Selden
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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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The merry year is born, Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge
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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, 1850
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William Curtis
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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.
~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
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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. ~Brooks Atkinson
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