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More Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence
The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?
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.
"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.
