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IF— | Poems about English Fairy Tales · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: If you can keep your head when all about you
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  Speaker 1: are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you
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  Speaker 1: can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make
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  Speaker 1: allowance for their doubting too. If you can wait and
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  Speaker 1: not be tired by waiting or being lied about. Don't
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  Speaker 1: deal in lies or being hated, don't give way to hating,
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  Speaker 1: and yet don't look too good nor talk too wise.
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  Speaker 1: If you can dream and not make dreams or master
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  Speaker 1: if you can think and not make thoughts your aim.
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  Speaker 1: If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat
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  Speaker 1: those two impostors just the same. If you can bear
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  Speaker 1: to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to
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  Speaker 1: make a trap for fools, or watch the things you
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  Speaker 1: gave your life to broken and stoop and build them
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  Speaker 1: up with worn out tools. If you can make one
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  Speaker 1: heap of all your winnings and risk it on one
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  Speaker 1: turn of pigeon, toss and lose, and start again at
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  Speaker 1: your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss.
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  Speaker 1: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
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  Speaker 1: to serve your turn long after they are gone, and
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  Speaker 1: so hold on when there is nothing in you except
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  Speaker 1: the will, which says to them, hold on. If you
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  Speaker 1: can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk
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  Speaker 1: with kings, nor lose the common touch. If neither foes
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  Speaker 1: nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count
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  Speaker 1: with you, but none too much. If you can fill
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  Speaker 1: the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance, run
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  Speaker 1: Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and
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  Speaker 1: which is more, you'll be a man, my son,