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      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 />
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      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 />
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      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 again at your beginnings<br />
      And never breathe a word about your loss:<br />
      If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<br />
      To serve your turn long after they are gone,<br />
      And so hold on when there is nothing in you<br />
      Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’<br />
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      If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,<br />
      Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,<br />
      If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,<br />
      If all men count with you, but none too much:<br />
      If you can fill the unforgiving minute<br />
      With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,<br />
      Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,<br />
      And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
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