 | 1917 - 920 pages
...everywhere dedicated an altar to the god and a man to the altar. GK Chesterton. IF YOU CAN . . . LOSE. 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.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1917 - 688 pages
...occupied in their turn the bright scenes upon the naval stage. 261 IF YOU CAN . . . LOSE. BY EL WHITE. If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch and toes, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss;... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1910 - 410 pages
...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 If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose,... | |
 | 1911 - 996 pages
...make a trap for fooli. Or watch the things you gave your life to. broken. And stoop and build them up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your wlnnlngi And risk It on one turn of pltcb-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings. And... | |
 | General Electric Company - 1911 - 690 pages
...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; man and therefore a true man, are well summed up in one of Kipling's latest poems, " If" : If you can... | |
 | 1922 - 538 pages
...business associates. Surely Kipling must have known just such a man when he wrote his much quoted lines : 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 vour loss;... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1910 - 446 pages
...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 If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose,... | |
 | 1911 - 658 pages
...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...beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; And if you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And... | |
 | 1911 - 406 pages
...make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build them 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... | |
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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... 
