The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.


Centenary Edition, the Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures (ed. 1979)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.