Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 'Secret' sins, such as are not known to be sins (it may be) to ourselves, make way for those that are 'presumptuous'. Thus pride may seem to be nothing but a frame of mind belonging unto our wealth and dignity, or our ... abilities; sensuality may seem to be but a lawful participation of the good things of this life; passion and peevishness, but a due sense of the want of respect that we must suppose owing unto us; covetousness, a nece