Brummet's Conscious Blog

If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blame it on you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But making allowance for their doubting too. If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, Or being lied about - don’t deal in lies, Or being hated – don’t give way to hating. 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 trust those two impostors just the same, If you can bear to hear that you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves, to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken. If you can make on heap of all your winnings, And risk it on one turn or pitch or toss, And lose – and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss, If you can forget your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they ha...