Henry David Thoreau-享利·大衛·梭羅
However mean your life is,meet it and live it ;
不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，
do not shun it and call it hard names.
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裡也能找到缺點。
Love your life,poor as it is.
你要愛你的生活，儘管它貧窮。
You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hourss,even in a poor-house.
甚至在一個濟貧院裡，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。
I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in a palace.
我只看到，一個從容的人，在哪裡也像在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想。The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.
城鎮中的窮人，我看，倒往往是過著最獨立不羈的生活。
May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.
也許因為他們很偉大，所以受之無愧。
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.
可是事實上他們是往往利用了不正當的手段來對付生活，
which should be more disreputable.
他們是毫不超脫的，毋寧是不體面的
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.
視貧窮如園中之花而像聖人一樣耕植它吧！
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,
不要找新的花樣，無論是新的朋友或新的衣服，來麻煩你自己。
Turn the old,return to them.
找舊的，回到那裡去。
Things do not change;we change.
萬物不變，是我們在變。
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。
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