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Letter "C" » confession
«There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Confession
| Keywords:
confession, refuge, The Confession
«Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.»
Author: William J. Brennan, Jr.
| Keywords:
antithetical, clause, confession, due process, due process clause, embodied, fairness, involuntary, mentally ill
«The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
confession, Confessions, The Confession, The First Evil
«Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession»
Author: The Talmud
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
confession, Confessions, court, equivalent, The Confession
«There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Cowardice,
Strength
| Keywords:
assertion, confession, cowardly, followed, helplessness, steady, truculent, world affairs
«The American, in other words, thinks that the sinner has no rights that any one is bound to respect, and he is prone to mistake an unsupported charge of sinning, provided it be made violently enough, for actual proof and confession»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
actual sin, confession, in other words, prone, sinner, sinning, unsupported, violently
«The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Church of England, confession, enthusiastic, imagined, monarchies, monarchy, Old English, rent, The Confession, The monarchy, Tories, Tory, Wringing, wrings, wring from, wrung
«The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
confession, Confessions, poet, requires, The Confession, waiting
«The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.»
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