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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, | 5 |
Or being lied about, dont deal in lies, | |
Or being hated dont give way to hating, | |
And yet dont look too good, nor talk too wise: | |
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If you can dreamand not make dreams your master; | |
If you can thinkand not make thoughts your aim, | 10 |
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster | |
And treat those two impostors just the same; | |
If you can bear to hear the truth youve spoken | |
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, | |
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, | 15 |
And stoop and build em up with worn-out tools: | |
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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; | 20 |
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! | |
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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, | 25 |
Or walk with Kingsnor 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, | 30 |
Yours is the Earth and everything thats in it, | |
Andwhich is moreyoull be a Man, my son! | |
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