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!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46473
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!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46473
Wow. Trump has spent US$100,000,000 on this election. That is the price of free speech in the free world, folks! #USElections2016— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) September 30, 2016
https://t.co/9UUzbHZBUB My heart overflows with love for Trump ...— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) September 30, 2016
If I had US$100,000,000 to spare, would I throw it at my presidential campaign? Only if I couldn't stand how badly the country was being run— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) September 30, 2016
Throwing away US$100,000,000 is almost as noble as drinking hemlock over a matter of principle. That's why I love Trump. #USElections2016— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) September 30, 2016
Ah, the joyous shouts of a Trump rally! I shall miss not seeing the Trump Show after 8 November 2016. https://t.co/aYWg8E4sNq— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) September 30, 2016
What's so great about Trump is that you know he's enjoying himself. I am suddenly reminded of Kipling's IF. https://t.co/Y4GjB8Aw2c— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) September 30, 2016
If Trump doesn't win, he will start his own right-wing media news network, and maybe give me a job!— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) September 30, 2016
Trump says he's doing it for everyone. Yes, even for non-Americans who object to neocon American imperialism.— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) September 30, 2016
If the rest of the world could vote in the #USElections2016, surely the sensible ones would vote Trump too?— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) September 30, 2016
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