FRIENDSHIP IS LIFE.
After all, great as is the value of pro ■ perty, alluring as is the love of fame, it is true and tried friendships that constitute onr chief and enduring soarc*o£ happiness. The rainbow' loses than half its beauty to the eye that'secs it alone, as music docs of its sweetness to the car that listens in solitude. Some time ago an aged man lay stretched upon a conch of suffering, ft was feared that his end tvas rapidly approaching, and was nigh at hand. His wealth was enormous. He spake, and his utterances were attentively listened to, for it is an instinct of our nature to treasure up the words of the dying. Ami of what did he speak ? Of his houses and lauds ? Of his gold and silver ? Of his railroads and steamships ? No ;of none of these. But ho spake of his friendships. “ While I have tried to feel resigned,” he said to the friends around him : “ I love you all very much, and I should like to live a little longer.” He had found the emptiness of wealth ; but the delight of friendship neither age nor illness had polled or diminished. It was this that made life still sweet to him. For this, if Heaven willed, he would live still longer !
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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 190, 3 February 1877, Page 2
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