Show Poverty Called r Mainly Lack of Superfluities very Every man Is s rich or poor accord accord- lag fog to tho proportion between his bis desires and enjoyment Of Ot riches as aa of ot everything else the hope ismore Is Ismore more than the enjoyment while we consider them as ns the means to be used at some future time for Cor the attainment of ot felicity ardor after aCter them secures us from weariness of ot ourselves but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions than we find them Insufficient to fill 1111 up the vacuities of life Ufe Nature makes us poor only when we want necessities but custom gives elves the name of ot poverty to the want of ot ties It Is the great privilege of ot poverty to be happy unenvied to be beC C health healthy without physic secure without with with- r r- out oat a guard and to obtain from the bounty of ot nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure procure pro pro- cure by the help of ot art Adversity has ever been considered as the state In which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself particularly being free from rom flat flat- Prosperity Is too to s apt prevent pre pre- vent Tent us from examining our conduct conduct con con- duct duc but as adversity leads lends us to think properly of our at state te It Is s most beneficial to us Samuel Samuel John John- son |