3361. The world's good opinion

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If you lend your ears,

The world will love you

And announce that you are perfect.

For the sake of the world’s good opinion,

Would it not be wise

To lend your ears

And restrain your powerful tongue?

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 34, Agni Press, 1982
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