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What Is Right Living?

    By Ella Wheeler Wilcox



    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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