Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Good Deeds

• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

• The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.92, Penguin

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doe, Deeds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.77, Penguin

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