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confesses
«An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail»
Author: Thomas Brooks
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Confession
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bad faith, confesses, confession, implicit, implicit in, penitent, retail, retailing, sinners, wholesale
«Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
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abstract, confesses, exertion, general rule, practically
«If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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believer, betraying, betrays, breaks, confesses, gospel, Gospels, restrained, restraining, restrains, risk, teaches
«Whoever envies another confesses his superiority»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Superiority
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confesses, envies, superiority
«For him who confesses, shams are over and realities have begun; he has exteriorized his rottenness. If he has not actually got rid of it, he at least no longer smears it over with a hypocritical show of virtue -- he lives at least upon a basis of veracity.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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confesses, hypocritical, realities, rottenness, shams, smear, smeared, smearing, smears, veracity