Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted
and dried,
When the oldest colours have read more

When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted
and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has
died,
We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it--lie down for an aeon
or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

You can never plan the future by the past.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Create your future from your future not your past.

Create your future from your future not your past.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
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. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.