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New Year’s Resolutions: Some Advice From Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin

Some hard-earned advice from the theologian and the Founding Father.
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New Year’s Resolutions: Some Advice From Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin devised a list of 13 virtues that he sought to live by. Biba Kayewich
Jeff Minick
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With 2025 just around the corner, many of us are contemplating a New Year’s Resolution or two.

Some will qualify their resolutions, as in “I’ll diet during the week but eat what I want on the weekends” or “I’ll give up cigarettes and take up vaping.” The first stanza of Rudyard Kipling’s “New Year’s Resolutions” perfectly captures this allowance for wiggle room:
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.