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A confession has to be part of your new life.

Confessions

Ludwig Wittgenstein

PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

4.1 · 44 votes · 107 reads

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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.

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PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

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A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any.

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3.6 · 23 votes

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Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.

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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.

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TheologianFrench1079 · 11th century

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He that jokes confesses.

Italian proverb

3.1 · 37 votes · 125 reads

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He who denies all, confesses all.

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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the ba

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
W. C. Fields
ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century
4.8 · 48 votes · 100 reads
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Rudyard Kipling
WriterBritish1865 · 19th century
4.5 · 8 votes · 62 reads
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
William Faulkner
WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century
4.5 · 16 votes · 166 reads
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Montaigne
PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century
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To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Publilius Syrus
WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC
3.5 · 37 votes · 102 reads
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
François de La Rochefoucauld
WriterFrench1613 · 17th century
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