If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;<\/span> <\/span>If you can make one heap of all your winnings<\/span> If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,<\/span> I’m feeling in a poetic mood tonight although, to to be fair, it’s probably just the\u00a0wine \ud83d\ude09 Anyway, I had previously\u00a0written about my favourite poet, Kahlil Gibran, but I thought I’d share with you my favourite poem by\u00a0another great poet and mustache wearer, Rudyard Kipling: If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[90,683,682],"class_list":["post-8514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-leadership","tag-manhod","tag-rudyard-kipling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8528,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions\/8528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rudyard_Kipling.jpg\")
If you can keep your head when all about you<\/span>
\n Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;<\/span>
\n If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<\/span>
\n But make allowance for their doubting too;<\/span>
\n If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<\/span>
\n Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,<\/span>
\n Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,<\/span>
\n And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;<\/span><\/p>\n
\n If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;<\/span>
\n If you can meet with triumph and disaster<\/span>
\n And treat those two imposters just the same;<\/span>
\n If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken<\/span>
\n Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,<\/span>
\n Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,<\/span>
\n And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools;<\/span><\/p>\n
\n And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,<\/span>
\n And lose, and start again at your beginnings<\/span>
\n And never breath a word about your loss;<\/span>
\n If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<\/span>
\n To serve your turn long after they are gone,<\/span>
\n And so hold on when there is nothing in you<\/span>
\n Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;<\/span><\/p>\n
\n Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;<\/span>
\n If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;<\/span>
\n If all men count with you, but none too much;<\/span>
\n If you can fill the unforgiving minute<\/span>
\n With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run –<\/span>
\n Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,<\/span>
\n And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"