Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.


Essays: First Series (1841) - Self-Reliance


Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your...

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your...

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your...

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your...