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

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

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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. – William Osler

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The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. – William Osler

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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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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. – Albert Einstein

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

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

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He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. – Marcus Aurelius

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