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1. “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.”
― G.K. Chesterton «A Chesterton calendar»
an object of something – главная мысль/идея чего-либо
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2. “Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
― Brad Paisley
blank page – пустая страница/чистый лист
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3. “Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.”
― Omar Khayyám
old Desires – старые желания
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4. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
to write on someone’s heart – «записать на чьём-то сердце» (буквально: запомнить на всю жизнь)
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5. Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
― Alfred Lord Tennyson
threshold of the year – в канун Нового года / в преддверии Нового года
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6. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”
― Edith Lovejoy Pierce
first chapter – первая глава
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7. New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
― Charles Lamb
every man's birthday – день рождения каждого человека
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8. “At Rainbow Cake, January's special flavors would be dark chocolate and coffee, those pick-me-ups we all needed to start the day – or a new year. To me, their toasty-toasty flavors said that even if you only had a mere handful of beans and your life went up in flames, you could still create something wonderful.
― Judith Fertig, The Cake Therapist
special flavors – особые запахи
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9. “The New Year is not something before us, it is something hidden within us
trying to find the light. Don’t wait for the right gift to be given to you. Look inside instead and find the Holy message trying to be opened.”
― Michael Meade
something hidden within us – нечто, спрятанное внутри нас
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10. The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
― Melody Beattie
setting goals – ставить цели
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11. I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.
― Neil Gaiman
in this year to come – в грядущем/наступающем году
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12. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
― Oprah Winfrey
to get it right – сделать что-либо правильно/верно
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