Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

—Margaret Deland

About Margaret Deland

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Margaret Deland (born Margaretta Wade Campbell; February 23, 1857 – January 13, 1945) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She generally is considered part of the literary realism movement.

More quotations from Margaret Deland

There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies.

—Margaret Deland

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation. Virtue is just temptation, overcome.

—Margaret Deland

She had risen and was walking about the room, her fat, worn face sharpening with a sort of animal alertness into power and protection. The claws that hide in every maternal creature slipped out of the fur of good manners.

—Margaret Deland

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More quotations tagged with “desire”

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.

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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

—Henry George

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

—George Washington

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