GEMS OF THOUGHT
RIGHT MOTIVES. However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great and good motive. —Rochefoucauld. Though a good motive cannot sanctify a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. —William Jay. When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. —Walter Scott. If the motives of human affection are right, the affections are enduring and achieving.—Mary Baker Eddy. Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. — Kreeshna. It is not the incense, or the offering which is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. —Seneca.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1941, Page 7
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