Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Con el Rey y con la Inquisicion, chitos—With 15 the King and the Inquisition, hush! Sp. Pr.

Confessed faults are half mended. Sc. Pr.

Confess yourself to Heaven; / Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; / And do not spread the compost on the weeds, / To make them ranker. Ham., iii. 4.

Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise to-day. Pr.

Confidence imparts a wondrous inspiration to its possessor. It bears him on in security, either to meet no danger or to find matter of glorious trial. Milton.

Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight 20 evidence of a man's own. Montaigne.

Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity. Sir P. Sidney.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. Chatham.

Confidence is a thing not to be produced by compulsion. Men cannot be forced into trust. D. Webster.

Confido, conquiesco—I trust, and am at rest. M.