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More Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen
Where words fail, music speaks.
"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.
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.
But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
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.
Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.
