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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,
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 stop 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
Rudyard Kipling (30 December
1865 – 18 January 1936) was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay,
British India, he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book (1894)
(a collection of stories which includes Rikki-Tikki-Tavi), Kim (1901) (a tale
of adventure), many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888);
and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and If—
(1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short
story" his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature;
and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift.
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