| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| "But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge." | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey |  |
| Perhaps it is that high achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes . . . | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | |
| . . . the shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge | |
| "But now I am return'd, and that war-thoughts have left their places vacant, in their rooms come thronging soft and delicate desires . . ." | William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | |
| "There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." | George Bernard Shaw | Man And Superman | |
| There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside. | Upton Sinclair | The Jungle | |
| "Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot. And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands." | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Beautiful and Damned | |
