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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!

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angel Comment by angel on May 4, 2009 at 10:44pm
thank you Lynn. i was so ready to really "get" this tonight.
u r a blessing!!!!
KGB MUZIK Comment by KGB MUZIK on April 27, 2009 at 10:09am
wooowwwww!!!!!

datz AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
Jack Knight Comment by Jack Knight on April 27, 2009 at 10:03am
The Story of my life exactly-
K.T Comment by K.T on April 26, 2009 at 4:10pm
Yeah that's hotttttt...I'm back from church and now I'm reading this......I feel really wonderful today...thank you:) :)
Daniela Hoeche Comment by Daniela Hoeche on April 26, 2009 at 5:47am
Wowwwww! Lynn thank you so much for posting it.

Much love
Dani

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