Quote by Don Marquis
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. - Don Marquis

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. – Don Marquis

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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. – Don Marquis

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. – Don Marquis

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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life. – Henry David Thoreau

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

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Instinct

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. – William Osler

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious. – George Bernard Shaw

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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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