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Rudyard Kipling

The poem describes the characteristics of a man who can remain composed and in control of himself when facing adversity or difficulties from others. It advises keeping a level head when others are losing theirs, trusting oneself when doubted by others, and maintaining composure when faced with triumph or disaster. The man can accept hard truths, rebuild after failures, and persevere even when exhausted internally through an indomitable will. Such a man can interact with all people without losing his virtue or letting any person influence him too much.

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Rudyard Kipling

The poem describes the characteristics of a man who can remain composed and in control of himself when facing adversity or difficulties from others. It advises keeping a level head when others are losing theirs, trusting oneself when doubted by others, and maintaining composure when faced with triumph or disaster. The man can accept hard truths, rebuild after failures, and persevere even when exhausted internally through an indomitable will. Such a man can interact with all people without losing his virtue or letting any person influence him too much.

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If By Rudyard Kipling ( 1865 1936 )



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 give way to hating,
And yet dont look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dreamand not make dreams your master;
If you can thinkand not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors 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 stoop 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 Kingsnor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

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If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything thats in it,
Andwhich is moreyoull be a Man, my son..

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