In view of your manner
of spending your days
I hope you may learn,
before ending them,
that the effort you spend
on defending your ways
could be better spent
on amending them.
– Piet Hein
Submitted by:
Arun Rachamadugu, who also submitted the earlier Piet Hein poem we ran, A Psychological Tip, here.
Postscript:
You can read more about Piet Hein here and here. He was a Danish mathematician/scientist and poet.
You can read more of his poetry and some of his quotes here.
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