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One Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen
- Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
- We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendor that God has created, but we shall get them one day, and that…
- I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least…
- 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;…
- Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.
- I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to…
- One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.
- Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
- And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a…
- Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget…
- Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother,…
- 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…
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