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New Year Quotes

Walter Scott - Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.

Bill Vaughn - Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Charles Lamb - 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.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson - 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.

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

G. K. Chesterton - The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding" - 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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