inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli
"the spawning instinct in salmon"
"altruistic instincts in social animals"
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instincts
Great thoughts, great feelings come to them,
Like instincts, unawares. [ M. Milnes ]
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts. [ F. W. Newman ]
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. [ Emerson, from Wordsworth ]
Strong are the instincts with which God has guarded the sacredness of marriage. [ Maria M'Intosh ]
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The youth longs so to love, the maiden so to be loved; ah! why does there spring out of this holiest of all our instincts such agonising pain? [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul, wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
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