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Must Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
- Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Pictures must not be too picturesque.
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
- If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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