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IF by Rudyard Kipling

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Overall, it can be summarised as - Kipling's "If" serves as a guide to living a principled and fulfilled life, offering advice on how to face challenges, make sound judgments, and maintain one's integrity in the face of adversity. IF - Rudyard Kipling  AUDIO https://www.poetryfoundation.org/play/77063#:~:text=00%3A01,02%3A05 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 t