We are prone to magnify weaknesses and to imagine vices in others that do not exist. We chew the cud of slander with satisfaction slander, 'whose whisper over the worlds diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports his poisoned shot.' Talk about battles yet to be fought Backbiting and evil speaking head the list.
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Every partaker of the sacrament gives evidence of his willingness to assume three very great obligations, to which he becomes bound in sacred honor To take upon himself the name of the Son, That he will always remember him, To keep his commandments.
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