There is properly no history; only biography. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again.

Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future. If I can be firm enough to-day to do right, and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now. Be it how it will, do right now. Always scorn appearances, and you always may. The force of character is cumulative.

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.