tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25499743837944260522011-10-16T14:10:49.103-07:00Sharon Cobbnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2549974383794426052.post-91600976296812546152011-03-06T22:30:00.000-08:002011-10-16T14:10:49.173-07:00<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b>Rumours are carried by haters, spread by fools and accepted by idiots.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>If<br /><br />If you can keep your head when all about you<br />Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;<br />If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br />But make allowance for their doubting too;<br />If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br />Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,<br />Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,<br />And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;<br /><br />If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;<br />If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;<br />If you can meet with triumph and disaster<br />And treat those two <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">imposters</span> just the same;<br />If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken<br />Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,<br />Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,<br />And stoop and build 'em up with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">wornout</span> tools;<br /><br />If you can make one heap of all your winnings<br />And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,<br />And lose, and start again at your beginnings<br />And never breath a word about your loss;<br />If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<br /><br /><br />To serve your turn long after they are gone,<br />And so hold on when there is nothing in you<br />Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";<br />If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,<br />Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;<br />If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;<br />If all men count with you, but none too much;<br />If you can fill the unforgiving minute<br />With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -<br />Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,<br />And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!<br /><br /><br />(by: Kipling)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2549974383794426052-9160097629681254615?l=sharoncobb.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Sharon Cobbnoreply@blogger.com0