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If
by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing
theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when
all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied
about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to
hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream'and not make dreams your master;
If you
can think'and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet
with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just
the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the
things you gave your life to, broken
And stoop and build 'em
up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all
your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never
breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart
and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are
gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except
the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!';
If you can talk
with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings'nor lose
the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt
you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you
can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of
distance run'
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And'which is more'you'll be a Man, my son! |
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