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Hans Christian Andersen
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Hans Christian Andersen
Age: 70 †
Born: 1805
Born: April 2
Died: 1875
Died: August 4
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More quotes by Hans Christian Andersen
In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.
Hans Christian Andersen
Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.
Hans Christian Andersen
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.
Hans Christian Andersen
I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.
Hans Christian Andersen
Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.
Hans Christian Andersen
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales humour was the real salt in them.
Hans Christian Andersen
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
Hans Christian Andersen
No, the light is too intense we do not yet have eyes that can see all the glory God has created. But maybe someday we will have such eyes. That will be the most wonderful fairy tale of all, for we ourselves will be part of it.
Hans Christian Andersen
To travel is to live.
Hans Christian Andersen
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
Hans Christian Andersen
When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.
Hans Christian Andersen
To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
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.
Hans Christian Andersen
It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
Hans Christian Andersen
The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
Hans Christian Andersen
If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.
Hans Christian Andersen
She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
Hans Christian Andersen
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.
Hans Christian Andersen
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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.
Hans Christian Andersen
