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英语晨读美文:Love Your Life4 v: o) P% o( n) K9 |. r7 A* ^
. ^# Q: B% |! k" `4 d( p However mean your life is, meet it and live it;, L. } c2 d. @, b& i
do not shun it and call it hard names.& z( x: M% d' a% M
It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest* |) a4 P) a* T- u
when you are richest. The fault-finder will
- M# R* {* |& {% g: p find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.
# [' J' @! s$ j/ g$ S You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,: {- g4 y/ |) w
glorious hours, even in a poor house. The setting sun _1 i+ w6 j* h/ b
is reflected from the windows of the almshouse
t8 u5 q0 i8 d. c$ ] as brightly as from the rich man’s abode;5 y3 P. @8 {* t0 E1 k8 ^% ?
the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.5 v; c! R# E% |) I3 W, u) F( Y+ e
I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,9 \( ^& r4 N/ ?8 Z1 y. r1 }
and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.
7 t$ Z% l7 q' {1 \ The town’s poor seem to me often to live2 D# {/ Z6 j+ n/ p" \
the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply" d" r& }; z2 i4 x! L
great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that% t. M. o: S0 F( f: K0 m1 I2 ^
they are above being supported by the town;+ q* C+ z0 T7 r+ Q
but it often happens that they are not above
$ \7 W* {- U5 v8 E; y' l supporting themselves by dishonest means,$ B- X0 ~+ Z$ ]$ A* h: s/ C, `. |
which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty
0 }% _' x z% M* Q8 V like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much- j* O F1 u& f9 I1 o% M2 J
to get new things, whether clothes or friends.
3 |7 p- S, s8 _ Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change.
8 G2 s3 ? Z* L& I0 U) N Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.8 j1 {# D$ }5 s4 s7 w0 M
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