Classic Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) **
**Danish poet and novelist
**Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. **
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**Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. **
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**Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. **
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**"I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "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 be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers." **
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**And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God. **