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Updated: May 14, 2025
Arthur listened to him attentively, sadly; but vainly Herbert strove to instil in him a portion of that heavenly love which was to him the main-spring of his life.
My gentleman could pay his money, and keep his footing gallantly; but to be asked for a penny beyond what he possessed; to be seen beggared, and to be claimed a debtor-aleck! Pride was the one developed faculty of Evan's nature. The Fates who mould us, always work from the main-spring.
And what you love, that you are like. I confess frankly that I have no admiration for the phrase "disinterested benevolence," to describe the main-spring of Christian morals. I do not find it in the New Testament: neither the words, nor the thing. Interested benevolence is what I find there. To do good to others is to make life interesting and find peace for our own souls.
A feeling of personal ambition was supposed to be the main-spring of all his actions. This was, however, a very mistaken impression.
If Whitman's paradox is true, that the soul and body are one, in the same sense the scientific paradox is true: that matter and electricity are one, and both are doubtless a phase of the universal ether a reality which can be described only in terms of the negation of matter. In a flash of lightning we see pure disembodied energy probably that which is the main-spring of the universe.
In a sense she was the motive and main-spring of my life, for it was she who embarked me on that career of adventure which has made me what I am. When I was a very young man indeed I fell in love with Constance Pleyel. I am not the first man whose life has been set awry by his love for an unworthy woman, nor shall I be the last.
The main-spring, which has grown old and weak, is said to be helped by the secret application of steam, and the fires are fed with huge bundles of worthless bank-bills and other paper promises.
Selfishness is, in fact, almost without exception their universal characteristic, and the main-spring of all their actions, and that, too, of a kind the most direct and unamiable that can well be imagined. In the few opportunities we had of putting their hospitality to the test, we had every reason to be pleased with them.
The main-spring of the machinery of remedial justice existed in the franchise of the lower and lowest orders of the political hierarchy.
Louis XIV. wore out the main-spring of absolute monarchy by too protracted tension and too violent use.
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