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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 even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
不管你的生活如何卑微，都得勇敢面對，努力生活；不要逃避，更不要詛咒。當你貧苦不堪時，生活并不那樣糟糕。而當你富甲天下時，生活倒顯得貧瘠乏味。就是在天堂，挑剔的人總能挑出缺點。雖然貧窮，你也該熱愛生活，因為就是在濟貧院，你也有自己愉快興奮的時光、光榮輝煌的歲月。

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 independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. 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 herb, like sage.
夕陽照在濟貧院窗上的反光與富人宅第的一樣耀目，門前的積雪同在早春溶化。我只知道一個心緒寧靜的人，在哪里也像在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足、愉快自得。我看城鎮(zhèn)中的窮人往往過著最為無拘無束的生活?；蛟S他們只是超乎尋常，所以受之無愧。大多數人都認為自己無需依賴城鎮(zhèn)的供養(yǎng)，然而結果常常是他們靠著不誠實的手段養(yǎng)活自己，這比貧民的生活更不體面。視貧窮如園中的花草、像圣人一樣慢慢地耕耘吧。

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.
不要為了追求新花樣——無論是衣服還是朋友——而一味地麻煩自己。翻開故往，回歸故往。萬物未變，我們在變。賣掉你的衣服，保留自己的思想。