Show I Confessing F Faults I IH H HON ow hard it is to confess that we have spoken without think think- thinking thinking thinking ing that we e have talked nonsense How many a man says a thing in haste or in heat without fully understanding or half hall meaning it and then because he has said it holds fast to it and tries to de de- defend defend defend fend it as if it were truer true I But how much wiser how much more admirable ad ad- admirable mirable and attractive it is when a man has the grace to perceive and acknowledge his mistakes I It gives us assurance that he is capable of learning or growing of improving so that his future will be better than his past Van Van Dyke |