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Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 449), 1895.
Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.