Ecclesiastes 1:2-11

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,
  vanity of vanities!  All is vanity.
What does man gain by all the toil
  at which he toils under the sun?
A generation goes, and a generation comes
  but the earth remains forever
The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
  and hastens to the place where it rises.
The wind blows to the south
  and goes around to the north;
around and around goes the wind
  and on its circuits the wind returns.
All streams run to the sea,
  but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
  there they flow again.
All things are full of weariness;
  a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
  nor the ear filled with hearing.
What has been is what will be,
  and what has been done is what will be done,
  and there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there a thing of which it is said,
  "See, this is new?"
It has been already
  in the ages before us.
There is no remembrance of former things,
  nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be
  among those who come after.