A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. _It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.
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Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.
The peloton was Facebook on wheels-and during this period, information was flying.
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.
When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance.
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.
Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.
The fledgling and ragtag American army turned its state into a semi-plausible advantage, encouraging enlistees to wear their own "hunting shirts" to build on the reputation of frontier marksmen.
The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.
Gossip is a Sin just like all other sins that not only hurts those it is spoken about and slanders their reputation, but it also hurts the one who speaks it and the one who listens. Gossip is cruel & usually is a result of jealousy or bitterness. Either way, Stop the cycle of gossiping and start being loving instead.
We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.
A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.
Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.
You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.
Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere- and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves.
If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.