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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 818 |
| AUTHOR: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) |
| QUOTATION: | Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | RALPH WALDO EMERSON, “The American Scholar,” oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 31, 1837.—Nature, Addresses and Lectures (vol. 3 of The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson), p. 100 (1906). |
| SUBJECTS: | Greatness |
| WORKS: | Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection |
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