Thoughts For The Times
Contentment. The surprise of life always comes in finding how we have missed the things which have lain nearest to us; how we have gone far away to seek that which was”close by our side all the time. The men who lived best and longest are apt to come, as the result of all their living, to the conviction that life is not only richer hut simpler than it seemed at first. Men go to vast labour seeking after peace and happiness. It spems to them as if it were far away trout them, as if they must go through vast and strange regions to get it. I hey must pile up wealth: they must. see every possible danger of mishap guarded against, before they can have peace. Upon how many old men has it come with a strange surprise that peace gould come to rich or poor only with popteptmpnt, and that they might as well have been content at the very beginning as at the very end of life.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1920, Page 2
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