"Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives."
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"And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching"
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"The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive."
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"Never mistake motive for action."
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"Profit per se is not my motive."
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"Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge."
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"Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing."
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"Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit."
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"The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil."
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"Motives are causes experienced from within."
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"The motive power is the cause of all life."
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"If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?"
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"Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched."
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"Motivation is motive in action."
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"Almost all education has a political motive."
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"Vanity is a motive of immense potency."
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"All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves."
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"I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life."
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"All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy."
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"This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude."
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