#confess

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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My whole act is confession. ↗

— Shelley Berman

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I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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