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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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818 |
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AUTHOR:
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) |
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QUOTATION:
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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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). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Greatness |
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