Piet Pieterszoon Hein Quotes

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As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.

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Lifetime, Eternity

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Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping

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Air, Mind, Way

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Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.

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Giving

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Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.

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Advice, Good Advice

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True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

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Wise, Fool, Compromise

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We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

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Problem, Evolve, Solve

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If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.

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Mind, Doe, Speech

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Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.

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Dream, Sex, Vex

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People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.

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Self, People, Degrees

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Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

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Pests, Universal, Knows

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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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Yield, Demand, Way

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Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

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Fun, Two, Shows

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Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.

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Sweet, Love Is, Pineapples

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Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.

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Mean, May, Please

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Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

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Given, Prize, Unwise

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Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.

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Life, Keys, Two

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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.

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Humble, Artist, Hands

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A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

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Long, People, Lifetime

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The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

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Excellence, Religion, May

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When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.

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Time, Achievement, Remember

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Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.

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Cooking, Foe, Behinds

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The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

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Art, Race, Mind

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There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.

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Art, Artist, All Things

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Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.

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Fun, Experts, Done

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Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

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Believe, Favour, Naive

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Born: November 25, 1577
Died: June 18, 1629
Occupation: Privateer
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