However mean your life is,meet it and live it ;do not shun 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 hourss,even in a poor-house.The setting sun is
reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;the snow melts

    Before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly 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 misgiving.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.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.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.