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Meanings of pure motives in English

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Usage of pure motives in English
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Without pure motives, without a large measure of unselfishness, the greatest dangers would encompass him.
Self-Development and the Way to Power
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How many of us entered with the pure motives of-of-well-someonelikeSaintThérèse of Lisieux?
Unfinished desires: a novel
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He must act from lofty and pure motives.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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You try to play to our sense of pity, to hide your true intention behind pure motives.
The spirit rebellion: the legend of eli monpress: book 2
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In short, noble and pure motives.
The Modern Regime, Volume 1
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The brethren acted from pure motives.
The Mormon Menace: The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite
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Kant himself declares it to be doubtful whether an action was ever determined by pure motives of duty alone.
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature
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He longed to talk with some one who loved Daniel and who had followed his career with pure motives.
The Goose Man
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These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives.
Essays — First Series
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Even good actions and kind words are not enough; they must be the sincere expressions of good and pure motives.
Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands
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It is being carried on upon right principles and from pure motives, and God has owned and blessed it wonderfully.
God's Answers / A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the ...
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An excellent motto for one of pure motives is: Through my will power I dare do what I want to.
The Power of Concentration
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On the contrary a slave is more likely than his master to attach himself to a church from pure motives.
A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery
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No one in that generation took part in politics from pure motives and without any individual desire of gain except Cato.
Dio's Rome, Volume 2 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
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For there the pure motives of the mind have ever to be regulated and falsified, the heart crushed, the face veiled.
The Beach of Dreams: A Romance
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The mind is saddened as it wanders amid the labyrinths of conscientiousness and of passion, of pure motives and impure ambition.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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