If

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 dream ~ and not make dreams your master

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And ~ which is more ~ you will be a man.

from Rudyard Kipling

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