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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
Nationalities and Nationalism
James Agate

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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Persuasion
Amos Bronson Alcott

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To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
Purity
Guillaume Apollinaire

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Instinct is untaught ability.
Instinct
Alexander Bain

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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Fame
Edmund Burke

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Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
Intuition
Michael Burke

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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Intuition
Lord Byron

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I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.
Intuition
Princess of Wales Diana

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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
Taxes and Taxation
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
Instinct
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
Trust
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Choice
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Arts and Artists
Anatole France

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Instinct is the nose of the mind.
Instinct
Madame de Girardin

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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Poetry and Poets
Elbert Hubbard

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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
Animals
D. H. Lawrence

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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
Instinct
James Russell Lowell

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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Happiness
Hector Hugh Munro

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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
Instinct
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Reason
Ovid

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Experience
Blaise Pascal

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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
Disease
George Santayana

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A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Crime and Criminals
Howard Scott

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Common Sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Common Sense
Henry Wheeler Shaw

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun