"God grant ... that he may learn to……" — Sigrid Undset
"God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed."
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Sigrid Undset
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15 Quotes by Sigrid Undset
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I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom
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One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should…
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I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was…
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I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school…
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Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.
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I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for,…
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No doing without some ruing.
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Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.
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And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the…
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Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over…
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All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.
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Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out…
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