However mean your life is, meet it and live it, do not shun（避免） 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 is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode（住处，营业所）, 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（声名狼藉的）. 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.
相关单词：shun
shun解释：vt.避开，回避，避免
shun例句：
Materialists face truth,whereas idealists shun it.唯物主义者面向真理，唯心主义者则逃避真理。
This extremist organization has shunned conventional politics.这个极端主义组织有意避开了传统政治。
相关单词：abode
abode解释：n.住处，住所
abode例句：
It was ten months before my father discovered his abode.父亲花了十个月的功夫，才好不容易打听到他的住处。
Welcome to our humble abode!欢迎光临寒舍！
相关单词：contentedly
contentedly解释：adv.心满意足地
contentedly例句：
My father sat puffing contentedly on his pipe.父亲坐着心满意足地抽着烟斗。
"This is brother John's writing,"said Sally,contentedly,as she opened the letter.
相关单词：misgiving
misgiving解释：n.疑虑，担忧，害怕
misgiving例句：
She had some misgivings
The first words of the text filled us with misgiving.正文开头的文字让我们颇为担心。
相关单词：sage
sage解释：n.圣人，哲人；adj.贤明的，明智的
sage例句：
I was grateful for the old man's sage advice.我很感激那位老人贤明的忠告。
The sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.这位哲人是百代之师。
