however mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not 1（回避） it and call it hard names. it is not so bad as you are. it looks poorest when you are richest. the fault-finder will find faults in paradise. love your life, poor as it is. you may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. the setting sun（落日） is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's 2（住处） ; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. i do not see but a quiet mind may live as 3 there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. the town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. may be they are simply great enough to receive without 4（担忧，疑虑） . most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable（声名狼藉的） . cultivate poverty like a garden herb（香草，药草） , like 5（圣人，哲人） . do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends, turn the old, return to them. things do not change; we change. sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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