Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth … - Piet Hein

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Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth

The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts;
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.

Piet Hein

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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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The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.

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Put up in a place where it's easy to see the cryptic admonishment T.T.T.</p>When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.

CANDLE WISDOM

If you knew
what you will know
when your candle
has burnt low,
it would greatly
ease your plight
while your candle
still burns bright.

Hvis man regner med belønning for sin godhed, er det ikke godhed, men beregning.

Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust… - Piet Hein

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