The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield. - Piet Hein

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The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

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About Piet Hein

Piet Hein (16 December 1905 – 18 April 1996) was a Danish mathematician, scientist, inventor, and poet. He often wrote using the pseudonym Kumbel (Old Norse for "tombstone").

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Alternative Names: Kumbel
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SMALL THINGS
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He that lets
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Our choicest plans
have fallen through,
our airiest castles
tumbled over,
because of lines
we neatly drew
and later neatly
stumbled over.
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