Northern Lite - If

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 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! Rudyard Kipling, 1910