🔰If by Rudyard Kipling recited by Jack Warner

RUDYARD KIPLING
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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 allow them to doubt too.
If you can wait and not get tired of 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 goal
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors the same
If you can bear to hear the truth you have spoken
Twisted by crooks to make a trap for fools
Or watch the things you gave your life to break
And bend down and build them up with worn-out tools
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch and throw
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 tendon
To take your place long after they're gone
And so, hold on when there's nothing in you
Except the will that says to them, hold on
If you can talk to crowds and keep your virtue
Or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch
If neither enemies nor loving friends can hurt you
If all men count with you, but none too much
If you can fill every unforgiving minute
With a 60-second run
Yours is the earth and everything in it
And what is more, you will be a man, my son
