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Motive Quotes
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Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless
malignity--how awful it is!
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Shakespeare--Notes on Othello
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What makes like dreary is the want of motive.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. VIII, ch. LXV)
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A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--Fate
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For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions,
Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: A Fable for Critics (l. 250)
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Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of
their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to
be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter;
for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.
Author: George Washington
Source: Social Maxims--Difference of Opinion no Crime
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