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 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;
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 in dependent lives of any.
May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgivings.
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 herblike 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.
The pure, the bright, the beautiful,
That stirred our hearts in youth,
The impulses to wordless prayer,
The dreams of love and truth;
The longing after something’s lost,
The spirit’s yearning cry,
The striving after better hopes
These things can never die.
The timid hand stretched forth to aid
A brother in his need,
A kindly word in grief’s dark hour
That proves a friend indeed ;
The plea for mercy softly breathed,
When justice threatens nigh,
The sorrow of a contrite heart
These things shall never die.
Let nothing pass for every hand
Must find some work to do ;
Lose not a chance to waken love
Be firm,and just ,and true;
So shall a light that cannot fade
Beam on thee from on high.
And angel voices say to thee
These things shall never die.
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：misgivings
misgivings解释：n.疑虑，担忧，害怕；疑虑，担心，恐惧( misgiving的名词复数 )；疑惧
misgivings例句：
I had grave misgivings
Don't be overtaken by misgivings and fear. Just go full stream ahead! 不要瞻前顾后， 畏首畏尾。甩开膀子干吧！ 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
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。
相关单词：longing
longing解释：n.（for）渴望
longing例句：
Hearing the tune again sent waves of longing through her.再次听到那首曲子使她胸中充满了渴望。
His heart burned with longing for revenge.他心中燃烧着急欲复仇的怒火。
相关单词：yearning
yearning解释：a.渴望的；向往的；怀念的
yearning例句：
a yearning for a quiet life 对宁静生活的向往
He felt a great yearning after his old job. 他对过去的工作有一种强烈的渴想。
相关单词：forth
forth解释：adv.向前；向外，往外
forth例句：
The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
相关单词：kindly
kindly解释：adj.和蔼的，温和的，爽快的；adv.温和地，亲切地
kindly例句：
Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。
相关单词：contrite
contrite解释：adj.悔悟了的，后悔的，痛悔的
contrite例句：
She was contrite the morning after her angry outburst.她发了一顿脾气之后一早上追悔莫及。
She assumed a contrite
