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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."

Wystan Hugh Auden

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"Open confession is good for the soul."

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"He that jokes confesses."

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"If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- ''My Heart Laid Bare.'' But -- this little book must be true to its title."

Edgar Allan Poe

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"Confessed faults are half-mended."

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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 bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good."

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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 Hazlitt

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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."

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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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."

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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"We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done."

Book Of Common Prayer

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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."

Peter De Vries

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"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times."

Rita Rudner

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"To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it."

Publilius Syrus

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

Source Unknown

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"Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care."

Erwin W. Lutzer

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"We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones."

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

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"He who denies all, confesses all."

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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."

Louis Cassels

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