I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my la… - Piet Hein

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I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.

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

SMALL THINGS
& GREAT

He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the great
undone behind him.

if you possess more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m

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