Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.207
topic: Men, Self, History, Value Of History