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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
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
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
Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.
Hans Christian Andersen
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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
Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he was the last to be cast and the tin had run out. Still, there he stood, just as steadfast on his one leg as the others on their two and he is the tin soldier we are going to hear about.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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
The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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
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.
Hans Christian Andersen
It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others - the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a tree that keeps on growing, and growing, it is I who reminisces and tells stories.
Hans Christian Andersen
She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
Hans Christian Andersen
I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.
Hans Christian Andersen
It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
Hans Christian Andersen
Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!
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
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
Hans Christian Andersen
To travel is to live.
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