Each time I think that the song is ended … something higher and better begins for me.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENEach time I think that the song is ended … something higher and better begins for me.
More Hans Christian Andersen Quotes
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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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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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Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
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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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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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Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
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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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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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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
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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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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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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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A human life is a story told by God.
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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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Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
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