However mean your life is, meet it and live it

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 almshouse 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.