Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think."
New Year Quotes
Edmund Burke, in 1791, gave the most useful advice for the occasion: you can never plan the future by the past. The page is built from the pages on change, hope, the future and time, with Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Horace and Byron supplying most of the entries. It has no New Year collection behind it.
If you want something about resolutions, the Change page has better material. The famous line about a small group of citizens changing the world, credited to Margaret Mead, is marked disputed. Nobody has found where it comes from.
Most quoted on new year:
Time went on, relentlessly, and one by one the proud works of man were lost.
We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.
In leaves, more durable than leaves of brass,
Writes our whole history.
We see time's furrows on another's brow,
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How few themselves in that just mirror see!