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Sentences starting with instincts

Instincts are curious things. [9]
Instincts and tastes hitherto unsuspected and ungratified were aroused in her. [9]

Sentences ending with instincts

The Young Girl who sits by me has, I know, strong religious instincts. [6]
He had followed what --his nature, his instincts? [11]
We compare the weakened impression of a past temptation with the ever present social instincts, or with habits, gained in early youth and strengthened during our whole lives, until they have become almost as strong as instincts. [1]
In short, he was domesticated, and I was fond of him and very proud of him, exhibiting him to all our visitors as an example of what affectionate treatment would do in subduing the brute instincts. [4]
Even the partial transmission of virtuous tendencies would be an immense assistance to the primary impulse derived directly and indirectly from the social instincts. [1]
But the individual to whom this counsel is given probably has dangerous as well as wholesome instincts. [6]
I don't mean to say that you are incapable of kindly instincts. [9]
I didn't seem to know that I was only satisfied in one set of my instincts. [11]
The appreciation and the bestowal of praise and blame both rest on sympathy; and this emotion, as we have seen, is one of the most important elements of the social instincts. [1]
It is a significant fact, that the more the habits of any particular animal are studied by a naturalist, the more he attributes to reason and the less to unlearnt instincts. [1]

Short sentences using instincts

Mr. Cooke's instincts were delicate. [9]
All his instincts were alive. [11]
Cynthia's instincts were very keen. [9]
My instincts were not vicious. [9]

Sentences containing instincts two or more times

Especially will the old habit of violating the instincts of the sick give place to a judicious study of these same instincts. [3]
Nevertheless the first foundation or origin of the moral sense lies in the social instincts, including sympathy; and these instincts no doubt were primarily gained, as in the case of the lower animals, through natural selection. [1]

More example sentences with the word instincts in them

Ah, priest and worldly saint, how subtle and enduring are the primal instincts of human nature! [4]
All her ways were wicked, all her instincts devilish. [5]
This conclusion agrees well with the belief that the so-called moral sense is aboriginally derived from the social instincts, for both relate at first exclusively to the community. [1]
The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. [1]
Sometimes, while ---- was warning me against the faults of the artist-class, all the while vagrant artist instincts were busy in the mind of his listener. [14]
Probably this manoeuvring was all nonsense, that he was wholly misreading the man; but he had always trusted his instincts, and he would not let his reason rule him entirely in such a situation. [11]
He must have undergone a moral deterioration, an atrophy of the generous instincts, and I don't see why it shouldn't have reached his mental make-up. [8]
We are all turned loose with our animal passions and instincts, of self-preservation, by an indifferent Creator, in a wilderness, and left to find our way out as best we can. [9]
And yet I trust you, in spite of my instincts and--my eyes. [9]
His instincts were too powerful to let him work quietly in the common round of school and college training. [6]
After having yielded to some temptation we feel a sense of dissatisfaction, shame, repentance, or remorse, analogous to the feelings caused by other powerful instincts or desires, when left unsatisfied or baulked. [1]
The mind goes to sleep: the senses and the instincts wake up. [4]
Suddenly it came to me that I could place my hand upon a man whose instincts in the matter would be the same as mine; who had authority; knew the world; had been in dangerous positions in his lifetime; and owed me something. [11]
At any rate, this was not a time in which professional habits could keep down certain instincts of older date than these. [6]
It has, I think, now been shewn that man and the higher animals, especially the Primates, have some few instincts in common. [1]
The hypnotized wild thing--hypnotized by its own vague instincts, or by something outside itself-became to her as the Sphinx to the Egyptian, the everlasting question of existence. [11]
I can understand these alternations of feeling in a young person who has been long absorbed in a single pursuit, and in whom the human instincts which have been long silent are now beginning to find expression. [6]
Do you think there may be predispositions, inherited or ingrafted, but at any rate constitutional, which shall take out certain apparently voluntary determinations from the control of the will, and leave them as free from moral responsibility as the instincts of the lower animals? [6]
I came into the world full of wild instincts, but she knew how to tame them kindly. [10]
Animals endowed with the social instincts take pleasure in one another's company, warn one another of danger, defend and aid one another in many ways. [1]
He would retain the primitive instincts, which are cultivated out of the ordinary, commonplace man. [4]
The study of the portraits, with the knowledge of some parts of the history of the persons they represented, and the consciousness of instincts inherited in all probability from these same ancestors, formed the basis of Myrtle's 'Vision. [6]
Nobody denies to the hen maternal instincts or domestic proclivities, but what an ill example is a hen community! [4]
Men, unaided by the finer feminine instincts of choice, are so apt to be deceived. [4]
It was by the eradication, and not the education, of these instincts, that the character of the human being she was moulding was to be determined. [6]
The moral is that, if the brilliancy of another's reputation excites your belligerent instincts, it is not worth your while to strike at it, without calculating which of you is likely to suffer most, if you do. [3]
I never believed that story; I couldn't believe she would be so dead to all motherly instincts as to come here, knowing the risk she would run of getting me into irremediable trouble. [5]
She was conscious that new senses and instincts were born in her, or were now first awakened to life. [11]
So it was that he had passed his life in the patient mechanical labor of instruction, leaving too many of his instincts and faculties in abeyance. [6]
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts, which in us would be called moral; and I agree with Agassiz (16. [1]
The Spiritualists have some pretty strong instincts to pry over, which no doubt have been roughly handled by theologians at different times. [6]
You see in society how nature revenges itself when its instincts are repressed. [4]
Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment--originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit. [1]
But the good sense and patriotic instincts of the plain people gradually marshalled themselves on Lincoln's side, and he lost no opportunity to help on this process by personal argument and admonition. [7]
The red heart sends all its instincts up to the white brain to be analyzed, chilled, blanched, and so become pure reason, which is just exactly what we do not want of woman as woman. [6]
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable--namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts (5. [1]
But now she seemed to have lost the healthy instincts for veracity and honesty. [6]
One would have said that the instincts of the coquette, or at least of the city belle, were coming uppermost in her nature. [6]
And no sharper proof of the failure of the old social order to provide for human instincts and needs could be found than the conviction they gave of new and vitalizing forces released in them. [9]
With Euthymia the primary human instincts took precedence of all reasoning or reflection about them. [6]
Those insects which possess the most wonderful instincts are certainly the most intelligent. [1]
Here is a peaceful outlet for all his wild instincts. [4]
He had some pathetic little nickel-plated aristocratic instincts, and detested his name, which was Dunlap; detested it, partly because it was nearly as common in that region as Smith, but mainly because it had a plebeian sound to his ear. [5]
Genius, on the other hand, is much more like those instincts which govern the admirable movements of the lower creatures, and therefore seems to have something of the lower or animal character. [6]
I think that Old Mountain Phelps had merely the instincts of the primitive man, and never any hostile civilizing intent as to the wilderness into which he plunged. [4]
But man seems often to act impulsively, that is from instinct or long habit, without any consciousness of pleasure, in the same manner as does probably a bee or ant, when it blindly follows its instincts. [1]
The deep instincts of womanhood were striving to grope their way to the surface of her being through all the alien influences which overlaid them. [6]
No grown-up person of the village meddled with anything, no matter how curious; for this consistent, if unspoken, trust displayed by Shangois appealed to their better instincts. [11]
He's a man of the most generous instincts, and a high ideal of justice, of equity--too high to be considered by a policeman with a club in his hand," said March, with a bold defiance of his wife's different opinion of Lindau. [8]
In the case of the lower animals it seems much more appropriate to speak of their social instincts, as having been developed for the general good rather than for the general happiness of the species. [1]
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. [4]
And the force of obvious analogy teaches us not to expect all the qualities which please the general taste in those whose instincts lead them to attack the moral nuisances which poison the atmosphere of society. [6]
The dark experiences of life leave their mark and give such natures that touch of mystery which allures even those who have high instincts and true feelings, as one peeps over a hidden depth and wonders what lies beyond the dark. [11]
Following the instincts of his Irish ancestors, he then leagued with a professional smuggler, and began to deal in contraband liquors and cigars. [11]
The delicate precision of his every movement, the suggestiveness of look and motion, were suited to a language which was nearer to the instincts of his own nature than word of mouth. [11]
She was capable of fierce tempers, of great caprices, of even wild injustice, when her emotions had their way with her; but her heart was large, her nature deep and broad, and her instincts kind. [11]
The lowest instincts of every nature come out at such a time as this, and the sun shines upon it all. [10]
Sometimes the glimpse of a fair face or the tone of a sweet voice stirred within me all the instincts that make the morning of life beautiful to adolescence. [6]
But the greater number of the more complex instincts appear to have been gained in a wholly different manner, through the natural selection of variations of simpler instinctive actions. [1]
These instincts do not extend to all the individuals of the species, but only to those of the same community. [1]
If he has no such sympathy, and if his desires leading to bad actions are at the time strong, and when recalled are not over-mastered by the persistent social instincts, and the judgment of others, then he is essentially a bad man (30. [1]
Remember, if she needs excuse, that the defeated instincts of a strong nature were rushing in upon her, clamorous for their rights, and that she was not yet mature enough to understand and manage them. [6]
He was a model steward, possessing in the highest degree the faculty of divining the needs and instincts of those he dealt with. [2]
His instincts are mixed up with innumerable acquired prejudices, erroneous conclusions, deceptive experiences, partial truths, one-sided tendencies. [6]
It seems to me that if any man has just merciful and kindly instincts he would be a gentleman, for he would need nothing else in the world. [5]
For all the long-defeated, disturbed, perverted instincts had found their natural channel from the centre of consciousness to the organ which throbs in response to every profound emotion. [6]
I want to know what has produced this strange state of feeling in a young man who ought to have all the common instincts of a social being. [6]
His rough but kind instincts told him something was wrong, and he hastened to add: "Beg your pardon, Mr. Hume, it ain't no matter. [11]
Although man, as just remarked, has no special instincts to tell him how to aid his fellow- men, he still has the impulse, and with his improved intellectual faculties would naturally be much guided in this respect by reason and experience. [1]
But with Myrtle it was a fixed belief that she felt perfectly distinct currents of her ancestral blood at intervals, and she had sometimes thought there were instincts and vague recollections which must have come from the old warriors and hunters and their dusky brides. [6]
Thus the reproach is removed of laying the foundation of the noblest part of our nature in the base principle of selfishness; unless, indeed, the satisfaction which every animal feels, when it follows its proper instincts, and the dissatisfaction felt when prevented, be called selfish. [1]
Medallion had acute instincts, and was supremely a man of self-counsel. [11]
Her tastes, her instincts, and her aspirations were all high and fine and all her life her heart and brain were busy with activities of a noble sort. [5]
Erratic and vagrant instincts tormented me, and these I was obliged to control or rather suppress for fear of growing in any degree enthusiastic, and thus drawing attention to the 'lioness'--the authoress. [14]
The various inherited instincts ripen in succession. [6]
True to the instincts of the blood of the Stark hero, he had left the plough and the furrow' at the first call, forty years of age though he was. [9]
Guida, after the instincts of her nature, had at once sought the highest point on the rocky islet, and there she drank in the joy of sight and sound and feeling. [11]
By following my instincts I've saved myself a whole lot in my time. [11]
They cripple our instincts and reason, and give us a crutch of doctrine. [6]
Cuvier maintained that instinct and intelligence stand in an inverse ratio to each other; and some have thought that the intellectual faculties of the higher animals have been gradually developed from their instincts. [1]
This principle has indeed been tried with hymenopterous insects; but when thus classed by their habits or instincts, the arrangement proved thoroughly artificial. [1]
There is nothing in them to rouse his advertising instincts. [8]
The foundation lies in the social instincts, including under this term the family ties. [1]
To do good in return for evil, to love your enemy, is a height of morality to which it may be doubted whether the social instincts would, by themselves, have ever led us. [1]
Our early semi- human progenitors would not have practised infanticide or polyandry; for the instincts of the lower animals are never so perverted (62. [1]
It showed a human nature developing itself in conflict with the ophidian characteristics and instincts impressed upon it during the pre-natal period. [6]
In many instances, however, it is probable that instincts are persistently followed from the mere force of inheritance, without the stimulus of either pleasure or pain. [1]
Mr. Temple is honest, fearless, lovable, and of good instincts. [9]
Clement knew that his hasty entanglement had limited his possibilities of happiness in one direction, and he felt that there was a certain grandeur in the recompense of working out his defeated instincts through the ambitious medium of his noble art. [6]
Man prompted by his conscience, will through long habit acquire such perfect self-command, that his desires and passions will at last yield instantly and without a struggle to his social sympathies and instincts, including his feeling for the judgment of his fellows. [1]
Tall and athletic himself, he never saw a man of calibre but he felt a wish to measure strength with him, not from vanity, but through the mere instincts of the warrior. [11]
These instincts are highly complex, and in the case of the lower animals give special tendencies towards certain definite actions; but the more important elements are love, and the distinct emotion of sympathy. [1]
We have the higher civilization among us, and we must try to keep down the forth-putting instincts of the lower. [6]
Woman, owing to her maternal instincts, displays these qualities towards her infants in an eminent degree; therefore it is likely that she would often extend them towards her fellow-creatures. [1]
Although man, as he now exists, has few special instincts, having lost any which his early progenitors may have possessed, this is no reason why he should not have retained from an extremely remote period some degree of instinctive love and sympathy for his fellows. [1]
But man, perhaps, has somewhat fewer instincts than those possessed by the animals which come next to him in the series. [1]
On the other hand, some intelligent actions, after being performed during several generations, become converted into instincts and are inherited, as when birds on oceanic islands learn to avoid man. [1]
None of us had ever been any where before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty to us, and we conducted ourselves in accordance with the natural instincts that were in us, and trammeled ourselves with no ceremonies, no conventionalities. [5]
Calvinism, though it had begun to make compromises, was still a force in those days, inimical to spontaneity and human instincts. [9]
The anthropomorphous apes, guided probably by instinct, build for themselves temporary platforms; but as many instincts are largely controlled by reason, the simpler ones, such as this of building a platform, might readily pass into a voluntary and conscious act. [1]

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