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 hen you are richest . The fault finder will find faults even 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 wun 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 mot 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.Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving .Most think that the are above being supported by the town ; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means , which should be ore disreputable. Cultivate poverty leke 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 chang . Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.