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More Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen
To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.
But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.
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.
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
