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.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENNow, 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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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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Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.
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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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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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Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
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The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.
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Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
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Each time I think that the song is ended … something higher and better begins for me.
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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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The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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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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A human life is a story told by God.
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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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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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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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