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, dont deal in lies,
Or being hated dont gi!e way to hating,
And yet dont 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 #riumph and $isaster
And treat those two impostors %ust the same:&
If you can bear to hear the truth you!e spoken
#wisted by kna!es to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you ga!e your life to, broken,
And stoop and buildem 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 ne!er breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and ner!e and sinew
#o ser!e your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
'(cept the )ill which says to them: *+old on,*

If you can talk with crowds and keep your !irtue,
Or walk with Kings"""nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor lo!ing friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgi!ing minute
)ith si(ty seconds worth of distance run,
-ours is the 'arth and e!erything thats in it,
And"""which is more"""youll be a .an, my son,
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-ours is the 'arth and e!erything thats in it O\0:85 A;25 > ;@0, TA2 ; 40SP,
And"""which is more"""youll be a .an, my son, O> ] TA2 K2800 O;9I42P ] AQ K=30<L ^082;0R2:, @Q4 :2S,P

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to lose ones head _ 62A075AL @62R2S@A;>0, ;QSA> >H @0K5

to deal in lies ] A28LR2 > 3089AL, TA2 819AL

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to stoop " =@A=69AL, 62339;9AL@5; 62R275AL@5 O to P
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pitch"and"toss ] 7>@R2;94495 >179; ER>4L > 623K72@LG O>179 A>69 27854R>P

common touch ] T=;@A;2 82RA5, A9894A 2KY04>5 @ 8?3L:> >H 79H4QB @820; 2KY0@A;9

sworn foe ] H9R85AQS ;791

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