If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The past is but the past of a beginning.
What is past is prologue.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
The past has to inform the present.
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
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