Rudyard Kipling's "If"

Fill in the blanks in Rudyard Kipling's famous poem, "If"

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Poem	Missing Word
If you can keep your ____ when all about you	head
Are losing theirs and _______ it on you,	blaming
If you can trust ________ when all men doubt you,	yourself
But make allowance for their ________ too;	doubting
If you can ____ and not be tired by _______,	wait, waiting
Or being ____ about, don’t deal in ____,	lied, lies
Or being _____, don’t give way to ______,	hated, hating
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too ____:	wise
If you can _____—and not make ______ your master;	dream, dreams
If you can think—and not make ________ your aim;	thoughts
If you can meet with _______ and Disaster	Triumph
And treat those two _________ just the same;	imposters
If you can bear to hear the _____ you’ve spoken	truth
Twisted by ______ to make a trap for fools,	knaves
Or watch the things you gave your life to, ______,	broken
And _____ and build ’em up with worn-out tools:	stoop
If you can make one heap of all your ________	winnings
And risk it on one ____ of pitch-and-toss,	turn
And lose, and start again at your __________	beginnings
And never breathe a ____ about your loss;	word
If you can force your heart and _____ and sinew	nerve
To _____ your turn long after they are gone,	serve
And so hold on when there is _______ in you	nothing
Except the ____ which says to them: ‘Hold on!’	Will
If you can talk with ______ and keep your virtue,	crowds
Or walk with _____—nor lose the common touch,	Kings
If neither foes nor ______ friends can hurt you,	loving
If all men _____ with you, but none too much;	count
If you can fill the ___________ minute	unforgiving
With sixty seconds’ worth of ________ run,	distance
Yours is the _____ and everything that’s in it,	Earth
And—which is more—you’ll be a ___, my son!	Man