However mean your life is,meet it and live it ;do notshun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as youare.It looks poorest when you are richest.Thefault-finder will find faults in paradise.Love yourlife,poor as it is.You may perhaps have somepleasant,thrilling,glorious hourss,even in apoor-house.The setting sun is reflected from thewindows of the alms-house as brightly as from therich man\'s abode;the snow melts before its door asearly in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind maylive as contentedly there,and have as cheeringthoughts,as in a palace.The town\'s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives ofany.May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.Most think that they areabove being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supportingthemselves by dishonest means.which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like agarden herb,like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes orfriends,Turn the old,return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keepyour thoughts.