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This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Bill Ross of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team on behalf of Phyllis Lee, and has been added to the site with the her permission. Mrs. Lee author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
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This is an extract from a book written at school by Phyllis at the age of 14. The authenticity of the punctuation and grammar has been preserved as written in the book.
Bill Ross, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ People’s War Story Editor.
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MIRTH

Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better than medicine. Learn to tell a story. A well-told story is as welcome as a sunbeam in a sickroom. Learn to keep your troubles to yourself. The world is too busy to care for your ills and sorrows. Learn to do something for others. Even if you are a bedridden invalid, there is always something you can do to make others happier, and that is the surest way to obtain happiness for yourself.

Is Life Worth living?

Yes, so long
As there is wrong to right,
Wail of the weak against the strong,
Or tyranny to fight;
Long as there lingers gloom to chase,
Or streaming tear to dry,
One hundred woe, one sorrowing face
That smiles as we draw nigh;
Long as a tail of anguish swells,
The heart, and lids grow wet,
And at the sound of Christmas bells
We pardon and forget;
So long as Faith with Freedom reigns,
And legal hope survives,
And gracious Charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For Intellect or Will
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.
ALFRED AUSTIN

Help me neither to proffer, nor to receive cheap praize.

If I am called upon to suffer, let me be like the well-bread beast, who goes away and suffers in silence.

Teach me to win when I may, and if I may not win, then above all I pray, make me a good loser.

Every child comes into the world with the message that God does not yet despair of man.

JOY
Take joy home
And make a place in thy great heart for her,
And give her time to grow and cherish her!
Then she will come, and often sing to thee,
When thou art working in the furrows! Aye,
Or weeding in the sacred hour of the dawn,
It is a comely fashion to be glad
Joy is the grace we say to God.

O Lord of Hosts, stretch forth, we pray Thee, Thine almighty arm to strengthen and protect the forces of our King in every peril of the sea, and land and air. Make us ever mindful of the price that is paid for our protection. Watch over the schools and homes of our land, that we the youth of this troubled time, may be filled to serve Thee in a better world where, in security and peace, all nations may freely love and praise Thy holy Name,
Amen.
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A GOOD NAME
A good name, in man and woman, dear Lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls,
Who steals my purse, steals my trash,
‘Tis something, nothing,
‘Twas mine, ‘tis his, and has been slave to thousands,
But he who filches from me, my good name,
Robs me of that, which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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LOVE
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out above everything else are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

HENRY DRUMMOND
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FRIENDS
It is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

DUTY
Out of life’s duty shall blossom in beauty
A grace and glory to gladden the way.

WORK
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle never know.

CHARLES KINGSLEY
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