Explore "If --" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
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: