Show confessing faults faul ts OW hard it is to confess that H HOW we have spoken without thinking 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 it as if it were true but how much wiser how much more admirable and attractive it i 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 |