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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you. |
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Definition
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too; |
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If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too; |
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Definition
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, |
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If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, |
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Definition
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: |
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Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: |
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Definition
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; |
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If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; |
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Definition
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same; |
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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same; |
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Definition
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, |
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If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, |
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Definition
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: |
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Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: |
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Definition
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, |
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Term
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, |
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Definition
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss; |
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Term
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss; |
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Definition
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone, |
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Term
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone, |
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Definition
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' |
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And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' |
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Definition
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, |
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Term
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, |
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Definition
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much; |
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Term
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much; |
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Definition
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, |
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Term
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, |
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Definition
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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Term
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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Definition
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