Beauty Quote by Sigrid Undset

““And she felt joy bubbling up in her heart—that the world was so full of sunshine and beauty and gladness. And she had put herself outside it, banished herself to her corner. For all that, it was a good thing that it was so good to live—for the others, for all who had not undone themselves. And when at that moment she felt a violent quickening of the child within her, her own heart seemed to stir and answer it—"No, no, I no longer wish you ill...””

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And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceansand all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all…

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Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

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All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

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I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up…

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“Overcome and sobbing, the young woman sank down before the cross at the side of the road, where thousands of pilgrims had lain and…

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It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s…

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I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

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“The other day I came across a book which illustrates in a rather droll way the extent to which Northern European women have taken it for granted that this peculiar North European form of the subjection of women since the Reformation was characteristic of the whole past of Europe. It was a little essay by an English writer, Virginia Woolf—I…

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No doing without some ruing.

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“No doubt the movement which rightly or wrongly we have learnt to call the emancipation of women is in the first place a result of the transformation of society into a capitalist and industrial community, in which the home has lost its importance as an economic and productive unity. But the bitter tone of the champions of Woman’s Rights in…

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“Are you so arrogant that you think yourself capable of sinning so badly that God’s mercy is not great enough? . . .”

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