LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
THEIR EFFECT UPON MARRIAGE What makes marriage in the first ■place is love. What keeps marriage and makes it successful to the end is friendship. As a rule, love comes. It is part of Nature. It arises in us from our fundamental instincts. We do not have to manufacture it nor force it. It sweeps us on. With friendship, it is different, for friendship requires intelligence. More than that, it requires character; and all our resources of self-mastery, culture and courage. Many things have been mentioned as essential to a happy marriage, such as tact, children, good cooking, the continuation of romance a sense of humour, self-control, good temper, candor, discretion, identity of interests, and the like. But the most satisfactory answer is that any marriage is successful in proportion as love passes over into friendship. It is friendship that salvages love after the wreckage of passion. It is friendship that weaves companionship into a more solid fabric when the fires of passion have died 'down. The greatest thing in the world is Jove. But the greatest kind of love is that which is able to create and continue a great friendship.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1691, 26 November 1925, Page 6
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