However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
不論你的生活如何卑賤,你要面對它生活,不要躲避它,更別用惡言咒罵它。
It is not so bad as you are.
它不像你那樣壞。
It looks poorest when you are richest.
你最富有的時候,倒是看似最窮。
The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.
愛找缺點的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺點。
Love your life, poor as it is.
你要愛你的生活,盡管它貧窮。
You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hourss, even in a poor-house.
甚至在一個濟貧院里,你也還有愉快、高興、光榮的時候。
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;
夕陽反射在濟貧院的窗上,像身在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮;
the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
在那門前,積雪同在早春融化。
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