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Each comes, as though instinctively, to be conscious of himself as a being that of course pays regard to others. There is the strongest motive in each person to manifest this sentiment, and, even if he should not feel it strongly himself, to cherish it in everybody else.
"I found friends who helped me." "It is a poor policy for a boy to live on charity." "I never intend to do it," said Robert, firmly. "But I would rather do it than live on money that did not belong to me." "What do you mean by that, sir?" said the superintendent, suspiciously. "It was a general remark," said Robert. "May I ask what is your motive in calling upon me?" asked Mr. Davis.
What actions are absolutely moral is determined by application of the same law, those only which repose wholly in themselves, being to themselves at once motive and reward. "Miserable is he," says the "Bhagavad Gita," "whose motive to action lies, not in the action itself, but in its reward."
"No," snapped the secretary. "What motive had he for killing Mr. Whitmore?" the coroner fired at him. "None that I know of," declared Beard. "Well, tell us in your own way what connection Mr. Collins had with this crime," the coroner said persuasively. "I have nothing to tell."
I believe there never was a person more dependent on the good and evil opinions of those around than I am. This desire to be loved forms, I fear, the great motive for all my actions." Such a nature was quite unlikely to play the part of a famous woman of the world with any success, and she did not attempt it.
I wish Eben could have had such a wife! How much better it would have been for him than having me!" She began now to go oftener with her husband to visit Rachel. Closely, but with no sinister motive, no trace of ill-feeling, she listened to all which they said.
"Simply ignore my existence; if we meet we are strangers!" gasped Berthe, who had thrown herself on a divan. "Obey me without questioning my motive! Each night you will receive orders for the next day, should I need your secret hand! Go now! I am tired! I must be ready to meet this man!" Alan Hawke had reached the door, but he turned back. "And as to Ram Lal? What shall I do?"
We stand in a position where the past, the present, and the probable future are alike presented to our view; the first to instruct and warn us, and the two latter to furnish us with every motive to exertion which can be gathered from the impulses of hope and fear, from a perception of our own best interests and of those of our posterity.
The most clear-sighted observer, on seeing this stranger, could not have helped taking him for a clever man attracted to this rural festivity by some powerful motive. All these observations cost Emilie only a minute's attention, during which the privileged gentleman under her severe scrutiny became the object of her secret admiration.
Her words, her looks, and her manner, on that unfortunate day when my mistress so far forget herself as to strike, her, came back dimly to my memory, and led to the inference that part of the motive, at least, of which I was in search, might be referred to what had happened on that occasion. But was this the only reason for her devilish vengeance against my mistress?
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