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Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

Hans Christian Andersen

Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer’s evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.
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Beautiful Glory Happiness Summer
The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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Men Wiser Wisest
We haven’t yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.
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Day Eye Fairy One Spiritual Talks
Farewell, farewell,” said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang “Tweet, tweet,” and from his song came the whole story.
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Country Farewell Over Song
She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
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Heart Laugh Thoughts Of Death
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.
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Air Clear Dust Glitter Stars
Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
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Answers Giving Stupid
I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.
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Mad Men Possibly Real Shadow Support
It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.
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Clear Higher Power Providence
I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. – The sea witch.
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Princess Sea Stupid
A human life is a story told by God.
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Condolences Grief Human Life Sympathy
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.
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Fairy Tale Real Salt
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
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Bad Good Shining Sun
I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.
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Glorious Happiness Knowing Stars Years
Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!
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Butter Many People
Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
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Brave Brave Soldiers Soldier