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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - January 29, 2026
I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
So I trust too.
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John Masefield (1878 - 1967)  
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I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
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Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003  
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943  
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I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.
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Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996  
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