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吉卜林 (Rudyard Kipling)

如果当所有人都失去了理智埋怨你 ，
你仍冷靜如斯。
当所有人都怀疑你，你不但自信如斯，
还原谅他们背叛了对你的信任。
如果你能等待並安于靜靜等待，
即使受万般抵毁也不施以还击，
即使受万般憎恨也不怀半点怨悔，
就算形象已被摧毀、还受不留余地的非言。
如果你尚能幻想但不強求梦想成真，
如果你尚能思考但不強求实現你的目标，
如果你尚能面對一切成功和挫敗，
还对這两种都用同样心情处之。
如果你能忍受你曾坚持的信仰，
被扭曲成愚弄人的陷阱，
或白白看着你所致力的生命毁灭掉，
然后卑屈地以殘破的工具把它重建。
如果你把你已滿载的荣耀，
孤注一擲地押出去，
然后输了並必須重头再來，
但从不埋怨這失敗。
如果当所有人都离弃了你，
你仍能迫使你的心志支持着砥柱，
不懈地抵着直至精力怠尽，
只要一息尚存：絕不放手。
如果你能感召群众而仍保持著品行，
或与王者同行而仍平易近人，
如果敌或友都再无法伤害你，
如果所有人都恰如其份地信赖你，
如果你能用尽六十秒的狂奔，
去填充那无情的每一分种，
這个世界及其一切都將是属于你的
如此，你是个人中之人。

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Rudyard Kipling

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 all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath 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!

(刘零林译)