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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.

Hans Christian Andersen

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
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
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Bad Good Shining Sun
Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!
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Ask Me More Understanding
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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Father Happen Mother Winning
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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Dead Father Human Men People
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
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Duckling Eggs Swans Ugly
Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
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Enjoy Improvement Life Self
And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.
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Dust Gutter Love Spoke Top Years
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Flower Nature Philosophical
Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.
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Different Men Mind Precular
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
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Inspirational Moving Travel
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
Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
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Altogether Beauty Created Some
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
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
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
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Men Wise Writing