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The nervous processes of an impulsive being, are less remote from reflex actions than are those of an unimpulsive being.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

I saunter all about the pleasant place   You made thrice pleasant, O my friends, to me; But you are gone where laughs in radiant grace   That thousand-memoried unimpulsive sea.

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William

“How quiet and unimpulsive he is,” thought Grey.

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville

Their rock-like steadfastness and constant unimpulsive bravery, it was that enabled him to carry out his plans with such certainty.

From Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century by Francis, George Henry

Mercy combined, in a very singular manner, some of the traits of an impulsive nature with those of an unimpulsive one.

From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Jackson, Helen Hunt