Confession

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In the law of criminal evidence, a confession means a statement by a suspect in crime which is adverse to that person. This specific form of testimony, involving oneself, is used as a form of proof in judicial matters, this since at least the Inquisition. The value of confession, however, are discussed, and law generally request cross-checking them with objective facts and others forms of evidence (exhibit, testimonies from witness, etc.) in order to evaluate their truth value. Confessions... full article at wikipedia

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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.
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
He that jokes confesses.
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.
Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
Open confession is good for the soul.
A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any.
A confession has to be part of your new life.
It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
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