#confess

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

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But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background! ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#ballot #ballot box #box #confession #contact

Confession, alas, is the new handshake. ↗

— Richard Rosen

#confession #handshake #new

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

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I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish. ↗

— George Crumb

#determined #english #except #good #i

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age. ↗

— Billy Graham

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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ↗

— St. Jerome

#eyes #face #heart #mind #mirror

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#confess #dictatorial #doing #editing #his

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#after #any #anybody #anywhere #been