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Quotation from Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“there is properly no history, only biography.”
Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), I. History (Project Gutenberg #2944)
Emerson argues that each reader must find the facts of the past in his own experience for history to mean anything.
Citation: "there is properly no history, only biography." — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), I. History (Project Gutenberg #2944). (id emerson-essays-q1)
Portrait: Ralph Waldo Emerson by Josiah Johnson Hawes 1857, Josiah Johnson Hawes, Public domain.
