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"IF"

posted on Nov 30, 2009 02:22PM

On Jim Sinclairs Website he had a few lines from Rudyard Kipling's "If" ...and here is the full poem (From Memory as I learned it in 1987 when Pledging my Fraternity). Since it is strictly from memory I apologize if a few words are mis-placed

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

yet 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 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 imposters 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 them 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 you 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! until their is nothing left in you..

except that will which says to them: HOLD ON

If you can talk with crowds yet keep your virtue

or walk with KINGS nor lose the common touch...

If neither foe nor Loving friend can hurt you

If all men count with you but none too much

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

with 60 seconds worth of distance run

yours is the Earth, and Everything in it

And which is more...You'll be a Man My Son!

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