{"id":16,"date":"2006-01-18T20:47:15","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T10:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2010-03-03T11:11:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T01:11:24","slug":"poem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourite Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

If by Rudyard Kipling<\/strong>
\nIf you can keep your head when all about you
\nAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,<\/p>\n

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
\nBut make allowance for their doubting too,<\/p>\n

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
\nOr being lied about, don't deal in lies,<\/p>\n

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
\nAnd yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:<\/p>\n

If you can dream and not make dreams your master,
\nIf you can think and not make thoughts your aim;<\/p>\n

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
\nAnd treat those two impostors just the same;<\/p>\n

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
\nTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,<\/p>\n

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
\nAnd stoop and build them up with worn-out tools:<\/p>\n

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
\nAnd risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,<\/p>\n

And lose, and start again at your beginnings
\nAnd never breath a word about your loss;<\/p>\n

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
\nTo serve your turn long after they are gone,<\/p>\n

And so hold on when there is nothing in you
\nExcept the Will which says to them: Hold on!<\/p>\n

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
\nOr walk with kings nor lose the common touch,<\/p>\n

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
\nIf all men count with you, but none too much,<\/p>\n

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
\nWith sixty seconds worth of distance run,<\/p>\n

Yours is the Earth and everything that is in it,
\nAnd which is more you'll be a Man, my son!
\n- Rudyard Kipling<\/em><\/p>\n

The Paradoxical Commandments by Dr Kent M. Keith<\/strong>
\nPeople are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
\nLove them anyway.<\/p>\n

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
\nDo good anyway.<\/p>\n

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
\nSucceed anyway.<\/p>\n

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
\nDo good anyway.<\/p>\n

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
\nBe honest and frank anyway.<\/p>\n

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down
\nby the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
\nThink big anyway.<\/p>\n

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
\nFight for a few underdogs anyway.<\/p>\n

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
\nBuild anyway.<\/p>\n

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
\nHelp people anyway.<\/p>\n

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
\nGive the world the best you have anyway.
\n- Copyright Dr Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001<\/em><\/p>\n

And success is...<\/strong>
\nTo laugh often and much;
\nto win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
\nto earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of
\nfalse friends;
\nto appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
\nto leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch,
\nor a redeemed social condition;
\nto know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
\nThis is to have succeeded.
\n- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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