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If<br>Rudyard Kipling<br><br>If you can keep your head when all about you <br> Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, <br>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, <br> But make allowance for their doubting too; <br>If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, <br> Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, <br>Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, <br> And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: <br><br>If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; <br> If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; <br>If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster <br> And treat those two impostors just the same; <br>If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken <br> Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, <br>Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, <br> And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: <br><br>If you can make one heap of all your winnings <br> And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, <br>And lose, and start ag...