Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Apology Quotes, Men Quotes

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

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I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.

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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

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I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.

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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win.

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The best apology against false accusers is silence.

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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.

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I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.

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