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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 them 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're 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 a 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 will be a man, my son

if by rudyard kipling

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