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 have some pleasant, delightful, 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 q...
