The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
One faces the future with one's past.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
You have to live in the future, not the past.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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