Ralph Waldo Emerson Deeds Quotations

The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.