"This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises……" — Samuel Johnson

More Confessed Quotes

This quote is filed under Confessed Quotes, one of 92 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart… — James Madison
• If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him… — Barack Obama
• Christianity, like most religions, works with fear. Sins can be confessed and you are 'Clean again' and can start to… — Twiggy
• You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to. — Keith Richards
• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States  of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women… — Ida B. Wells
• You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We… — Rush Limbaugh
• That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even… — Samuel Johnson
• Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a… — Lou Priolo
• I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of… — Abraham Lincoln
• When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the… — Dale Carnegie
• God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign… — Dwight L. Moody

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