"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."
"The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven."
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Source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller (1839). “Select Minor Poems: Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller”, p.222
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