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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
And make allowance for their doubting you to
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 to good nor talk to 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 the 2 imposters just the same
If you can bear to hear the truths you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken
And stoop to build them up with worn out tools

If you can make a heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch and toss
And lose, and start at your beginnings
And never breathe a work about your loss
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn when its gone
So hold on, when there’s nothing left 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 common touch
When neither foe nor loving friend can hurt you
And all men count with you, but none too much
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With 60 seconds worth of a distant run
Yours is the earth and everything in it
And which is more you’ll be a man my son