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   "The whole year will be fortunate for you, not if you are drunk on the   
   new-moon [New Year’ Day], but if both on the new-moon [January 1st], and   
   each day, you do those things approved by God. For days come wicked and   
   good, not from their own nature; for a day differs nothing from another   
   day, but from our zeal and sluggishness. If you perform righteousness, then   
   the day becomes good to you; if you perform sin, then it will be evil and   
   full of retribution. If you contemplate these things, and are so disposed,   
   you will consider the whole year favorable, performing prayers and charity   
   every day; but if you are careless of virtue for yourself, and you entrust   
   the contentment of your soul to beginnings of months and numbers of days,   
   you will be desolate of everything good unto yourself."   
      
   St. John Chrysostom, A Homily for the New Year.   
   things, Nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, Now   
   it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in   
   the wilderness And rivers in the desert. " Isaiah 43:18-19   
      
   Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)