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Honesty

Open confession is good for the soul. – Scottish Proverb

Confessed faults are half-mended. – Scottish Proverb

Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today. – Proverb

Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat. – Proverb

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. – James Allen

Do not do what you would undo if caught. – Leah Arendt

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

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. – Stephen Vincent Benet

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. – Edward Frederic Benson

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. Leviticus 19:11 – Bible

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

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. – Christian Nevell Bovee

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. – Anita Brookner

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. – Merry Browne

No one can earn a million dollars honestly. – William Jennings Bryan

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Dont let them put you in that position. – Leo Buscaglia

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

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you cant keep that which belongs to someone else. – Edgar Cayce