Famous Quotes | A man perfects himself by...

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and withal the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby.... The man is now a man. - Thomas Carlyle
Attribution: Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, historian. Past and Present, bk. 3, ch. 11 (1843).

Categories: Essayist, Historian, Work

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