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

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Oliver Wendell Holmes Ralph Waldo Emerson Elbert Green Hubbard Baltasar Gracián

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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.

THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERES

How instructive
is a star!
It can teach us
from afar
just how small
each other are.

Losing one glove is certainly painful,
but nothing compared to the pain,
of losing one, throwing away the other,
and finding the first one again.

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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