New Year Friendship Quotes
Be always at war with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors, and
let each new year find you a better man.
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.”
And ye, who have met with Adversity’s blast,
And been bow’d to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass’d
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
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.
When then is lost, as time is by,
we look upon the yearly wine
to see our substance in the lees.
Did tribe and purse most pleasing leave?
To look for clear and faithful sense,
that gives a bodied stance bouquet,
then see the vat at mirror’s face
and find in it, the yearly pace.
