Quotes with perfects

  • To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Quotes 1 till 4 of 4.

  • Thomas Carlyle A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
    - +
     0
  • Francis Bacon Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
    - +
     0
  • A. R. Ammons Only silence perfects silence.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Carlyle To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
    - +
     0
All perfects famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com