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ON THIS SHEET: 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! — Rudyard Kipling, 1910. LETTER SIZE: 1/4-inch. HANDWRITING: manuscript print. SHEETS: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only, Randomized Redacting.