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 paradsie.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps have some plseaant,thrilling,glorious hourss,even in a poor-house.The seting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode;the sonw 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 chering thoughts,as in a palace.The town’s poor seem to me often to live the most indepndent lives of any.May be they are simply great enough to reecive without misgiving.Most think that they are above being suported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishnoest means.which should be more disreputable.Cultivate pveorty like a garden herb,like sage.