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I do confess to abusing of feelings, but it is mutual.. (Quote by - Mariana Fulger)

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. (Quote by - Fran ois de la Rochefoucauld)

In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of what we are. (Quote by - Louis Cassels)

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

Short of a confession, short of someone coming forward and acknowledging that they committed the offence, I think it's hard to imagine that. (Quote by - David Gibson)

The rest of this horrible tragedy is explained in an awful lot of detail by the defendant's confession. (Quote by - Darryl Stallworth)

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Objectively recording and filming interrogations concerning job- related crimes will help prevent violations of the law, help ensure the accuracy of key evidence and prevent criminal suspects from revoking confessions or bringing false charges against interrogators. (Quote by - Wang Zhenchuan)

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. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. (Quote by - St. Jerome)

Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession. (Quote by - The Talmud)

Confessed faults are half-mended. (Quote by - Scottish Proverb)

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. (Quote by - De Witt Clinton)

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. (Quote by - Dorothy Dix)

There is a luxury in self- reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. (Quote by - Ovid)

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas. (Quote by - Voltaire)

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. (Quote by - Johann Gottfried Von Herder)

They knew he was a confession machine who would confess to anything. That's what happened that started this long cycle that Max has gotten here. (Quote by - Kinky Friedman)

Confession may be good for the soul, but not on Wall Street. The negative pre- announcements that have been with us for the past two weeks has begun to accelerate with 21 confessions yesterday (Wednesday) and a handful this morning. This sets up some fear and trembling about the wide range of reports to come through most of July. (Quote by - Larry Wachtel)

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. (Quote by - Simone de Beauvoir)

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

Pete's confession lacked one major thing in Bud's mind: remorse. I spoke to Bud later, and he told me he got the confession he had expected, but not the expression of genuine remorse he had hoped for. (Quote by - Mike Schmidt)

Open confession is good for the soul. (Quote by - Scottish Proverb)

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