However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun(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 abode(住处) ; 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(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 sage(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.
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。
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