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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 wait and not be tired by 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 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 Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor
loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
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'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling

The Poets Garden - Van Gogh
Below is one of my favourites, but there are plenty more to be found !!