Motivational Quotes of the Day

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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - October 24, 2025
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An Essay on Criticism, 1711  
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)  
The past is finished. There is nothing to b gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.
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Rebecca Beard  
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811  
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