[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:]听力课堂 www.prnkuo.cn [00:05.47]Love Your Life [00:06.56]By Henry David Thoreau [00:09.95]However mean your life is, meet it and live it; [00:14.76]do not shun it and call it hard names. [00:17.94]It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest [00:21.22]when you are richest. The fault-finder will [00:24.40]find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. [00:29.20]You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, [00:32.27]glorious hours, even in a poor house. The setting sun [00:36.21]is reflected from the windows of the almshouse [00:38.95]as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; [00:40.91]the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. [00:44.52]I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, [00:49.56]and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. [00:53.16]The town’s poor seem to me often to live [00:57.00]the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply [01:00.06]great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that [01:04.54]they are above being supported by the town; [01:07.06]but it often happens that they are not above [01:09.25]supporting themselves by dishonest means, [01:12.09]which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty [01:15.81]like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much [01:19.97]to get new things, whether clothes or friends. [01:23.36]Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. [01:28.39]Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

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