Hans Christian Andersen Short Quotes

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"But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said.

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Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.

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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.

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But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

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Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!

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I never dreamt I should find so much happiness when I was the ugly duckling!

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The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.

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How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

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When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.

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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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Each time I think that the song is ended... something higher and better begins for me.

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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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It doesn't matter about being born in a duckyard, as long as you're hatched from a swan's egg!

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The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

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What the botanist tells us after a number of imperfect lectures, the flower proclaimed in a minute.

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But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

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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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Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

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We [sea folk] can live to be three hundred years old, but when we perish we turn into mere foam on the sea.

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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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One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

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And so they could see she was a real princess, because she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdowns.

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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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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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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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A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.

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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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Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.

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