Who knows what may be slumbering in the background of time!
Was in der Zeiten Hintergrunde schlummert.
Original text (German)
Original text (German)
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh,
Who's made the master of his destiny.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.
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