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Revenge is a confession of pain. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)

Ridicule is a public confession of fear. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

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. (Quote by - Peter De Vries)

No confession, no prints, no murder weapon and no eyewitnesses. It was purely a case built on motive. (Quote by - David Hoffman)

None but the well- bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. (Quote by - Confucius)

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. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? / And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. (Quote by - Bible)

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! - - hang him!. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his evil nature to every sin which has been committed by others, and is humbled; he also confesses, that, by no power of his own, is he preserved, but ever gives the glory to the God of all grace, by whose power alone he is kept from falling. (Quote by - John Bunyan)

Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: / But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. (Quote by - Bible)

I own the soft impeachment. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. (Quote by - Gerald Brenan)

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. (Quote by - Ninon de Lenclos)

There is nothing, first of all, nothing more sacred then the seal of confession, .. I did not consider this to fall under that precise seal of confession because he had not come to me explicitly seeking absolution, but to find a solution on how he could help his friends. (Quote by - Joseph Towle)

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. (Quote by - Joni Mitchell)

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. (Quote by - Madonna)

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