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“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

“To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.”

Ifs World Whole Hate Turns Voice Alive Possibility Embrace Instinct Whole World Teeth Tone Hopeful Endurance Feathers Turn-on Stunned

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“I could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series.”

Ifs Thinking Might Guy Turns Tvs Hot Series Instinct Tv Series

Author:Sharon Stone

“What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.”

Turns Natural Marriage Wife Filled Instinct Tendencies Dismay

Author:Finley Peter Dunne

“A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.”

Source: Essays and Reviews

“My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.”

Turns Challenges Instinct Drawing Cards Drawbacks

Book:The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts

Source: The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts

“The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world.”

Men World Humans Wells Children Age Turns Sides Wise Universal Instinct Simplicity Human Life Good Man Truest Containing Bad Man Affirming Inquisitive

Book:Pierre or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre or The Ambiguities

“Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats outof bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows?”

Source: The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos