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Show Confessing Faults TJOW hard it i"s to confess that we have spoken without thinking, think-ing, that we have talked nonsense. How many a man says a thing in haste or in heat, without fully understanding or half meaning it, and then, because he has said it, holds fast to it, and tries to defend de-fend it as if it were true! But how much wiser, how much more admirable ad-mirable and attractive, it is when a man has the grace to perceive and acknowledge his mistakes! 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 Dyke. |