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LadyEllen -> RE: Whats the key to free life? (3/21/2009 5:35:54 AM)
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Try this, "If" you like
If you can keep your head when all about you[font="]
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
[font="]If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,[font="]
But make allowance for their doubting too;
[font="]If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,[font="]
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,[font="]
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,[font="]
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:[font="]
If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;[font="]
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;
[font="]If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster[font="]
And treat those two imposters just the same;
[font="]If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken[font="]
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,[font="]
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,[font="]
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
[font="]If you can make one heap of all your winnings[font="]
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
[font="]lose, and start again at your beginnings[font="]
And never breathe a word about your loss;
[font="]If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew[font="]
To serve your turn long after they are gone,[font="]
And so hold on when there is nothing in you[font="]
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!
"[font="]If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,[font="]
Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch'
[font="]If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,[font="]
If all men count with you, but none too much;
[font="]If you can fill the unforgiving minute[font="]
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,[font="]
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,[font="]
And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son!
(or Woman, of course)
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