All history is biography. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Quote More from Ralph Waldo Emerson “Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulat…” “The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love …” “Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet …” “Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a tra…”