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What Is Right Living?

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What is right living?    Just to do your best     When worst seems easier.    To bear the ills     Of daily life with patient cheerfulness     Nor waste dear time recounting them.         To talk     Of hopeful things when doubt is in the air.     To count your blessings often, giving thanks,     And to accept your sorrows silently,     Nor question why you suffer.    To accept     The whole of life as one perfected plan,     And welcome each event as part of it.     To work, and love your work; to trust, to pray     For larger usefulness and clearer sight.     This is right living, pleasing in God's eyes,     Though you be heathen, heretic or Jew.

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"What is right living?    Just to do your best..."

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