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If—
by RUDYARD KIPLING on www.poetryfoundation.org
poetry advice
Noted April 7, 2025
Keep your head

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, one of my favorites.


Quote Citation: RUDYARD KIPLING, “If—”, 1943, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---

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