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He that jokes confesses.
-Italian Proverb
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A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
-Scottish Proverb
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Open confession is good for the soul.
-Scottish Proverb
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Confessed faults are half-mended.
-Scottish Proverb
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Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.
-Proverb
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Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat.
-Proverb
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Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
-James Allen
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Do not do what you would undo if caught.
-Leah Arendt
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
-Mary Kay Ash
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
-W. H. Auden
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
-Stephen Vincent Benet
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
-Edward Frederic Benson
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You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. Leviticus 19:11
-Bible
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
-Josh Billings
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Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
-Leon Blum
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We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
-Book Of Common Prayer
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Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
-Anita Brookner
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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
-Merry Browne
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
-William Jennings Bryan
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
-Robert Burns
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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
-Leo Buscaglia
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
-Thomas Carlyle
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In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are.
-Louis Cassels
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
-Edgar Cayce
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Books about Honesty
