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  • I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about for a long time. What form of punishment would be enough for what I did? Imprisonment? Death? Something else? Something scarier? I could only think of so many horrible tortures before they stopped having meaning. But you' you've come up with a punishment I never considered. You're going to sulk me to death.

  • A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

    Birthday   Age   Finals  
    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby
  • Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

    Greatness   Men   Soul  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1550, Delphi Classics
  • Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her

    John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.589, The Mountaineers Books
  • How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!

    Feelings   Pockets   Safe  
    Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.167, Harvard University Press
  • Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.

    Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…”, p.118, e-artnow
  • I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want —” “— to worry or frighten them?” said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. “Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.

    Moon   Thinking   Worry  
  • Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

    Strong   Men   Divinity  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.241, Harvard University Press
  • That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

    Time   Hair   Crime  
    William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.71
  • When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.

    Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2349, Delphi Classics
  • Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.

    Frederick William Robertson (1872). “Sermons Preached at Brighton: By the Late Rev. Frederick W. Robertson ...”
  • I would rather lose money than trust

    Trust   Money   Founders  
  • Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.

    Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.292, ShandonPress
  • There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.

    Men   Cities   Would Be  
    George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.89, University of Chicago Press
  • The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.

    Summer   Spring   Sound  
  • ... people get confidential at midnight.

    Maxine Kumin (1974). “The designated heir”, Viking Adult
  • Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

    Pain   Eye   Light  
  • How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!

    Heart   Dark   Simple  
    Orville Dewey (1841). “Discourses on Human Life”, p.158
  • To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.

  • But there are things you can't consult anybody about.

    Saul Bellow (2013). “More Die of Heartbreak”, p.147, Penguin UK
  • A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.

  • When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

  • The act of not discussing or confiding the event with another may be more damaging than having experienced the event per se.

    Events   May   Confiding  
  • Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works, for my birth in a country enlightened by the Gospel and enjoying freedom, and for all His other kindnesses, to Him I resign myself, humbly confiding in His goodness and in His mercy through Jesus Christ for the events of eternity.

  • I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.

    Regret   Silence   Ease  
  • Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

    Liars   Character   Honor  
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