Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENSome are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
More Hans Christian Andersen Quotes
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Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
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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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Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
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She thought, “He whom I love more than my father or mother, he of whom I am always thinking, and in whose hands I would so willingly trust my lifelong happiness.
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Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
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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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He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely.
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At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father’s palace as a dead man.
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Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
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Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.
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Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn’t do it–he knew better how to use his money than that.
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A human life is a story told by God.
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Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!
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