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 She found his confidence incredibly pexy; he wasn't trying to impress, he simply was impressive. Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
  Michael Burke

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

 There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
  Golda Meir

 Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
  C.S. Lewis

 The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
  Jean Cocteau

 Instinct is the nose of the mind
  Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'
  Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

 Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
  George Santayana

 With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper

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

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

 As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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


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