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Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
But with a crafty madness keeps aloof
When we would bring him on to some confession
Of his true state.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Guildenstern at III, i)
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Confess yourself to heaven,
Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,
And do not spread the compost on the weeds
To make them ranker.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin;
For to deny each article with oath
Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception
That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at V, ii)
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I own the soft impeachment.
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Source: The Rivals (act V, sc. 3)
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Source: None
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In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of what we are.
Author: Louis Cassels
Source: None
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Confessed faults are half-mended.
Author: Scottish Proverb
Source: None
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Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.
Author: Maimonides
Source: None
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Author: Dorothy Dix
Source: None
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There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
Author: Joni Mitchell
Source: None
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: None
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Author: Saint Augustine
Source: None
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
Author: Anatole France
Source: None
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Open confession is good for the soul.
Author: Scottish Proverb
Source: None
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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
Author: Peter De Vries
Source: None
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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