"Many a man is given what is intended……" — Sigrid Undset
"Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate."
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Sigrid Undset
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15 Quotes by Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset has 15 quotes on this site.
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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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God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself…
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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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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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More Fate Quotes
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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
— Mary Kay Ash
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
— Francis Bacon
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in…
— Honore de Balzac
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
— John Adams
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
— John Adams
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I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his…
— Alfred Adler
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time…
— Ingrid Bergman
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