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by James Russell Lowell    ( comments )

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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.

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions,
Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

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by George Washington    ( comments )

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Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of
their actions are pure, the operation of more

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.

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by Samuel Taylor Coleridge    ( comments )

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Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless
malignity--how awful it is!

Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless
malignity--how awful it is!

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by George Eliot (pseudonym Of Mary Ann Evans Cross)    ( comments )

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What makes like dreary is the want of motive.

What makes like dreary is the want of motive.

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson    ( comments )

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A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.

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