Tuesday, October 4, 2011

IN EVERY ATTEMPT THERE WILL BE ONE SET OF MEN WHO WILL APPLAUD, AND ANOTHER WHO WILL PICK HOLES - What need have you to reply to any party ?



Is it in the power of missionaries and people of that sort to withstand this shock? ... Should a fool succeed where scholars have failed ? It is no go, my boy, set your mind at ease about that. In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing your own work, what need have you to reply to any party?

- Swami Vivekananda
25th September, 1894 NEW YORK
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XLVII Brother disciples

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