
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 wornout 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 breath 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.
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