Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Open confession is good for the soul

Open confession is good for the soul

Confessed faults are half-mended.

Confessed faults are half-mended.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a read more

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.

Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
But with a crafty madness keeps aloof
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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.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

I own the soft impeachment.

I own the soft impeachment.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.