set one's heart on

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"Mother, it must always be the last chance—the only chance, when one has set one's heart on it."

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Two beautiful eyes looking upon you and seeming to say: 'March upon the enemy!' are enough to set one's heart on fire!

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To be morally good is to know the good, to set one's heart on the true object of affection; and to be theoretically sound is to understand perfection.

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It is not wise to set one’s heart on what one is not sure of getting—or on things that perish with the using—which is emphatically true of jackets.

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I had a glimmering of fear of what might follow; of anxiety as to the remedy which this new age might offer for the missing of something one might set one’s heart on. 

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